Madriz, E. (2000). Focus Groups in Feminist Research. Handbook of Qualitative Research. N. K. Denzin and Y. S. Lincoln. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage: 835-850.

This chapter examines the use of focus groups from a feminist/postmodernist framework. The major concerns of feminist/postmodernist ethnographers are the moral dilemmas present in the process of interviewing and the role of the interviewer in the process. These concerns have given particular significance to the voices and feelings of the participants. The author argues that focus groups can be an important element in the advancement of an agenda of social justice for women, because they can serve to expose and validate women's everyday experiences of subjugation and their individual and collective survival and resistance strategies.