Feminist Approaches to Youth Sexualities

Transcript from an interview with feminist researcher Sue Sharpe about the Women, Risk and AIDS Project (WRAP), which was conducted in 1989-1990. Sue is a freelance feminist researcher who has conducted numerous interviews with young women (and young men) as part of different research projects. For WRAP she conducted interviews with young women in London, and here she describes what it meant to be a feminist researcher in the 1980s, the emergence of computer assisted qualitative data analysis software to analyse qualitative data, the homogeneity of WRAP participants and ways in which they were accessed. As one of the interviewers for the follow on Men, Risk and AIDS Project, she also reflects on her experiences of interviewing young men. The interview concludes with discussion of the importance of putting the WRAP data in context when viewed by future archive users, socially, historically and politically.

Title	Interview with Sue Sharpe, orginal member of the WRAP team (Interview transcript)
Description	Transcript from an interview with feminist researcher Sue Sharpe about the Women, Risk and AIDS Project (WRAP), which was conducted in 1989-1990. Sue is a freelance feminist researcher who has conducted numerous interviews with young women (and young men) as part of different research projects. For WRAP she conducted interviews with young women in London, and here she describes what it meant to be a feminist researcher in the 1980s, the emergence of computer assisted qualitative data analysis software to analyse qualitative data, the homogeneity of WRAP participants and ways in which they were accessed. As one of the interviewers for the follow on Men, Risk and AIDS Project, she also reflects on her experiences of interviewing young men. The interview concludes with discussion of the importance of putting the WRAP data in context when viewed by future archive users, socially, historically and politically.
Date	18/02/2020
Contributor	Ester McGeeney
Creator	Reanimating Data Project
Publisher	Ester McGeeney
Subject	Women's movement Methodology Time methods (Research) Interviews (Data collection) Research outputs Research publications Data analysis Archives Youth Age differences Generation gap Ethnic groups Minority groups Mothers Working mothers Teenage pregnancy Employment Career Career development Sexual assault Sociology Feminism feminist research freelance research interviewing young women young men race gender equality motherhood qualitative data analysis ethnograph rape Qualitative research methods.
Type	Text
Temporal Coverage	2020
Spatial Coverage	London
Rights	CC BY-NC 4.0

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