This paper is an account of feminist research influenced by Cooperative Inquiry (CI) described as Feminist Cooperative Inquiry. A team of grassroots women leaders-turned-co-researchers, from different marginalised social locations (on gender, caste, class, education, livelihood axes) in India, developed this methodology to collectively analyse their own empowering journeys to make meanings of empowerment. The diversity of co-researchers in this research led to making additions or deviations in the CI protocol. By bringing in nonliterate or low-literate women from marginalised groups as coresearchers, the research added political value by extending centre of collective knowledge building towards marginalised groups. The paper also discusses how the research processes further empowered the coresearchers for their own interpretations, abstractions and their selfdefined viewpoint in the domain of empowerment. Calling empowerment as primarily an ‘internal reflective process’ co-researchers defied oversimplified, quantifiable proxy indicators as any measure of empowerment.

本文描述了受合作研究（CI）影响的女性主义研究，该研究被称为女性主义合作研究。来自印度不同边缘社会地位（在性别，种姓，阶级，教育，生计方面）的一群由基层女性领导人转变为共同研究人员的团队，开发了这种方法来集体分析自己的赋权旅程，以赋予赋权含义。这项研究的共同研究者的多样性导致了CI协议的增加或偏离。通过吸收来自边缘化群体的非文盲或低文化水平的妇女作为核心研究者，该研究通过将集体知识建设的中心扩展到边缘化群体而增加了政治价值。本文还讨论了研究过程如何进一步增强核心搜索者的理解能力，授权领域中的抽象及其自定义观点。共同研究者将赋权称为主要的“内部反思过程”，而将过度简化，可量化的代理指标视作赋权的任何度量。