Book Review: Roisin Ryan-Flood & Rosalind Gill (eds): Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process: Feminist reflections. London: Routledge, 2010, 336pp. $130.00 ISBN 9780415452144 (hbk)
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Book Review Roisin Ryan-Flood & Rosalind Gill (eds): Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process: Feminist reflections. London: Routledge, 2010, 336pp. $130.00 ISBN 9780415452144 (hbk) SAGE Publications, Inc. 201010.1177/0959353510375417 Leeat Granek McMaster Children's Hospital, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada All Research involves secrets and silences of various kinds, and these secrets and silences matter. (Ryan-Flood and Gill, Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process, p. 1) Let me tell you a secret. Despite our self-proclaimed stance as designated ‘truth- tellers’ in the academy, we, as feminist researchers, are sweeping a lot under the rug. I rst became interested in silences and secrets as a graduate student taking a seminar on embodiment. In the spirit of the theory exulting us to ‘ground’ our experiences in our own narratives, I revealed in my writing that I had experienced a form of violence that we had been discussing in class, and that all this talk on the ‘postmodern’ body did not resonate or do justice to my own experience or to the experiences of women I knew. The self-identi ed feminist professor did not want to talk about it. ‘Everyone has a story’, she said, and without looking up from her