Teija Rantala earned her Master's in Education and Ph.D. in Gender Studies at the University of Helsinki. In her doctoral study she explored the aspirations of religious women belonging to a minority movement in Finland and used feminist methods and poststructuralist theory to be able to examine the women's controversial aspirations. She has published her work mostly in feminist educational journals. The publications reflect her feminist, creative but critical approach to methodology and knowledge formation. She has a special interest in examining processes of gender, identity, aspirations and experience by experimenting with feminist poststructuralist and posthuman theory. She has given invited lectures at the University of Aberystwyth and University of Reading and reviewed for SAGE and Routledge.

• List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ReferencesSection 1: Fluid Critical Qualitative MethodologiesChapter 1: Motion and Fluidity in Feminist Critical Social Inquiry1.1. Movement in methodology; 1.2. Fluidity; 1.3. “Subjects” of situated knowledges; ReferencesChapter 2: Feminist Poststructuralist Methodologies as Escape2.1. What is feminist poststructuralism; 2.2. Feminist writing practices; 2.3. Memory work and collective biography2.4. Collaborative data production; ReferencesSection 2: Fluid Methodologies in Specific ContextsChapter 3: Overview of the Method3.1. A brief contextualization of the study; 3.2. The data production; 3.3. Fluidity and movement in the feminist data production; ReferencesChapter 4: Composing Processual Analysis4.1. Reading the data with concepts and theories; 2. Schizoanalysis; ReferencesChapter 5: The Movements of Lines5.1. Flowing lines; 5.2. Breaks in the flow: Relational and sexual configurations; 5.3. Temporary formations; 5.4. Brief summary on the lines; ReferencesSection 3: Final Thoughts on Critical Research in MotionChapter 6: The Possibilities and Challenges of the Methodologies in Motion6.1 The aftermaths of fluid feminist critical social inquiry; 6.2 Some future possibilities and challenges of fluid methodologies in critical social researchReferences; Glossary

Teija Rantala earned her Master's in Education and Ph.D. in Gender Studies at the University of Helsinki. In her doctoral study she explored the aspirations of religious women belonging to a minority movement in Finland and used feminist methods and poststructuralist theory to be able to examine the women's controversial aspirations. She has published her work mostly in feminist educational journals. The publications reflect her feminist, creative but critical approach to methodology and knowledge formation. She has a special interest in examining processes of gender, identity, aspirations and experience by experimenting with feminist poststructuralist and posthuman theory. She has given invited lectures at the University of Aberystwyth and University of Reading and reviewed for SAGE and Routledge.

• List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ReferencesSection 1: Fluid Critical Qualitative MethodologiesChapter 1: Motion and Fluidity in Feminist Critical Social Inquiry1.1. Movement in methodology; 1.2. Fluidity; 1.3. “Subjects” of situated knowledges; ReferencesChapter 2: Feminist Poststructuralist Methodologies as Escape2.1. What is feminist poststructuralism; 2.2. Feminist writing practices; 2.3. Memory work and collective biography2.4. Collaborative data production; ReferencesSection 2: Fluid Methodologies in Specific ContextsChapter 3: Overview of the Method3.1. A brief contextualization of the study; 3.2. The data production; 3.3. Fluidity and movement in the feminist data production; ReferencesChapter 4: Composing Processual Analysis4.1. Reading the data with concepts and theories; 2. Schizoanalysis; ReferencesChapter 5: The Movements of Lines5.1. Flowing lines; 5.2. Breaks in the flow: Relational and sexual configurations; 5.3. Temporary formations; 5.4. Brief summary on the lines; ReferencesSection 3: Final Thoughts on Critical Research in MotionChapter 6: The Possibilities and Challenges of the Methodologies in Motion6.1 The aftermaths of fluid feminist critical social inquiry; 6.2 Some future possibilities and challenges of fluid methodologies in critical social researchReferences; Glossary

Teija Rantala earned her Master's in Education and Ph.D. in Gender Studies at the University of Helsinki. In her doctoral study she explored the aspirations of religious women belonging to a minority movement in Finland and used feminist methods and poststructuralist theory to be able to examine the women's controversial aspirations. She has published her work mostly in feminist educational journals. The publications reflect her feminist, creative but critical approach to methodology and knowledge formation. She has a special interest in examining processes of gender, identity, aspirations and experience by experimenting with feminist poststructuralist and posthuman theory. She has given invited lectures at the University of Aberystwyth and University of Reading and reviewed for SAGE and Routledge.

• List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ReferencesSection 1: Fluid Critical Qualitative MethodologiesChapter 1: Motion and Fluidity in Feminist Critical Social Inquiry1.1. Movement in methodology; 1.2. Fluidity; 1.3. “Subjects” of situated knowledges; ReferencesChapter 2: Feminist Poststructuralist Methodologies as Escape2.1. What is feminist poststructuralism; 2.2. Feminist writing practices; 2.3. Memory work and collective biography2.4. Collaborative data production; ReferencesSection 2: Fluid Methodologies in Specific ContextsChapter 3: Overview of the Method3.1. A brief contextualization of the study; 3.2. The data production; 3.3. Fluidity and movement in the feminist data production; ReferencesChapter 4: Composing Processual Analysis4.1. Reading the data with concepts and theories; 2. Schizoanalysis; ReferencesChapter 5: The Movements of Lines5.1. Flowing lines; 5.2. Breaks in the flow: Relational and sexual configurations; 5.3. Temporary formations; 5.4. Brief summary on the lines; ReferencesSection 3: Final Thoughts on Critical Research in MotionChapter 6: The Possibilities and Challenges of the Methodologies in Motion6.1 The aftermaths of fluid feminist critical social inquiry; 6.2 Some future possibilities and challenges of fluid methodologies in critical social researchReferences; Glossary