ABSTRACT

In this article, we grapple with the ways in which our embodied masculinity affects how we learn about and tell the stories of our older lesbian respondents. Our encounters at the field site have prompted us to think through our methodological practices and epistemological positions, a prompting conditioned by the feminist and queer methodological traditions we are schooled in. Following queer feminist methodological emphasis on attending to the shifting subjectivities of researchers and participants and the concomitant affective registers of the field site, we explore what we call the ‘masculine dynamic’ between researchers and respondents that hover playfully at the contours of our research encounter. Using ethnographic vignettes and reflection notes, we ask after the interplay of masculine embodiments and performativity at the field site, and what this dynamic might mean for producing a ‘knowable’ yet largely ‘invisible’ group of older masculine women in Asia.

摘要

在本文中，我们探讨了我们体现的男性气质如何影响我们了解和讲述年长女同性恋受访者的故事的方式。我们在实地的遭遇促使我们仔细思考我们的方法论实践和认识论立场，这是受我们所接受教育的女权主义和酷儿方法论传统的制约。遵循酷儿女权主义方法论强调关注研究人员和参与者不断变化的主体性和伴随现场现场的情感记录，我们探索了我们所谓的研究人员和受访者之间的“男性动态”，他们在我们的研究遭遇的轮廓上嬉戏地徘徊。使用民族志小插曲和反思笔记，我们在现场询问男性化体现和表演性的相互作用，