Feminist enquiry is complex, comprehensive and fl uid: it is as much about formulating and
researching questions of fact as it is about exploring those of values and policy, thereby covering
the conceptual and methodological ground of communication research and theory as Salwen
and Stacks describe it in the fi rst chapter of this book (“Integrating Theory and Research: Starting
with Questions”). The challenge for communication scholars is twofold: fi rstly to re-enter
research questions and methodologies into the process of studying communication/s, meaning
re-starting from the basic question of “how social investigation should be approached” (Ramazanoglu
with Holland, 2006, p.11) in communication so that it can redress the gaps in knowledge
deriving from gender imbalances. To achieve that, our ways of knowing and enquiring
knowledge ought to be re-examined, refl ected upon and revisited. Secondly, the challenge is to
re-frame, re-phrase and re-design our approaches, which consist of theoretical as well as method
oriented knowledge, to understanding the ontology of communications, in other words to radically
expand our intellectual horizon so as to tune in to women’s and gendered constructed
experiences.