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Moving forward :opportunities and challenges
No full textAs we conclude this collection, we reflect on some of the exciting, rich and diverse opportunities and challenges presented by feminist narrative research. Providing a unique contribution to discussions about why and how feminist researchers might use narrative approaches to explore women’s lives, the contributors draw on examples from their own research to explore the kinds of stories that can (not) be told by, for and about women. Whilst the collection does not represent a consensus of what constitutes feminist narrative research, it does offer a number of approaches to researching women’s lives through the stories they tell. The influence of dominant narratives or narrative frameworks on the telling of individual stories is introduced by Woodiwiss in Chap. 2 and further explored in Part II, in the context of relationship abuse (Chap. 5), mothering (Chap. 6) and asylum seeking (Chap. 8). Mauthner (Chap. 4) discusses the Listening Guide as a method of narrative analysis, which can enable the critical examination of stories told by women, and this also informs chapters by Langley (Chap. 5), Lockwood (Chap. 6) and Smith (Chap. 8). Jones and Da Breo (Chap. 7) explore reflexivity and transparency and remind us of the need to acknowledge the role of the researcher(s)
Correspondence from Belva Lockwood to Clara MacNaughton
No full textHandwritten and signed correspondence from Belva A. Lockwood to Clara MacNaughton; first line reads "Dear Doctor,/ I have called a Peace meeting & hope you will find time to come & bring friends." mentions Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett and Crittenton Missions (National Florence Crittenton Mission) at the bottom of the page.Incoming correspondence to Dr. Clara W. MacNaughto
Doing feminist narrative research
No full textThe aim of this collection is to bring together feminist scholarship and narrative research in order to explore how feminist narrative research can be employed to understand and potentially improve the lives of self-identified women. The collection is therefore about the stories that can be and are told by, for and about women, but it is not simply a celebration of women’s stories. Nor is it a straightforward call to honour the stories women (can) tell. Rather, the contributors to the collection explore some of the opportunities and challenges of doing research that is at the same time both feminist and narrative and highlight the importance of acknowledging the power dynamics involved in constructing all knowledge or stories. In doing so they raise important questions about how and why we do such research and what we need to be aware of if we are to avoid simply reinforcing those dominant stories that have up to now delimited (some) women’s possibilities. The collection provides unique insights into how and why we might use narrative methods to explore women’s lives and offers some imperatives for questioning the kinds of stories that can and are told by, for and about women. In problematising the idea of simply honouring the stories women tell, some of the contributors also demonstrate how stories and narrative frameworks that inform the stories women are able to tell can be constraining as well as potentially liberating. As such, the collection not only discusses some of the opportunities and challenges of doing feminist narrative research but is at the same time also an important, albeit at times challenging, read
Feminist narrative research: opportunities and challenges
No full textIn this chapter I discuss narrative frameworks and dominant narratives. I argue for the need to go beyond the story as told to explore how and why we come to tell particular stories—often in the context of limited alternatives—and in doing so identify some of the difficulties for feminists in interrogating women’s stories. I draw on my own research on women’s engagement with narratives of childhood sexual abuse to explore how and why women might draw on such a narrative framework to construct themselves as damaged and responsible for their own unhappiness, often with no concrete memories on which to base their stories. In identifying some of the limitations of (telling) particular damage narratives the chapter also serves as a cautionary tale of the dangers of contemporary stories
Women, asylum and resistance: A feminist narrative approach to making sense of stories
No full textIn this chapter, I draw on an ESRC funded research that I conducted with women seeking asylum in the UK. Taking a narrative approach and drawing on feminist perspectives I examine the dominant narratives that influence particular stories told about people seeking asylum and I look at some of the ways women draw on broader narratives to construct their own stories. Inspired by the stories of the women in this study and drawing on nuanced concepts of ‘resistance’, this chapter offers a narrative framework of resistance for better making sense of the different stories of women seeking asylum. I suggest that adopting a feminist narrative approach can allow us to make sense of how and why women might tell their stories in relation to particular dominant narratives. Central to this chapter is the assertion that that feminist narrative approaches to research should not merely listen to women’s stories but rather explore the opportunities and constraints of narratives that might liberate or limit the stories told
Le cauchemar de Lockwood : sur la question de la Cruauté en Litérature (Lockwoods’ Nightmare: On the Question of Cruelty in Literature)
No full textThe aim of the present study is to analyze the phenomenon of dream in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, especially the nightmare of Lockwood, one of the principal narrators. The author attempts to show that the dream in question plays an important role in the structure of the novel, and interprets the given passages against the background of the distinction between convertible and inconvertible violence, recently proposed – in a different context – by Étienne Balibar
Getting Your Home Mortgage Interest Deductions
No full textAuthor\u27s biography: M. Jill Lockwood is interim director of the School of Accountancy at Georgia Southern University and can be reached at [email protected]
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Beyond the rapist ::Title IX and sexual violence on US campuses /
No full text"In the United States, approximately one in five women experiences rape during college, and LGBTQ students experience sexual violence at even higher rates. An increasing number of interested parties, from activists and students to legislators and university administrators, are re-evaluating the role that universities and colleges play in the incidence of sexual violence on their campuses. To this end, the number of U.S. universities under investigation for mishandling sexual assaults has recently grown to the highest count to date. Many more universities, guided by federal laws such as Title IX and the Clery Act, are working to better prevent and address various forms of assault on their campuses by implementing new policies, reporting procedures, and investigative processes. Now that such measures have been implemented for several years, however, the question arises of whether these institutional changes are actually combatting the issue of campus sexual assault or whether they might in practice be reproducing that violence in other forms. In Beyond the Rapist, Kate Lockwood Harris considers this question and how the relationships among organization, communication, and violence inform how we understand the ways in which universities talk about and respond to sexual violence. Drawing upon theoretical insights from feminist new materialism, Harris explores how complex physical and symbolic components of violence are embedded in organizations and applies this thinking to the policies and practices of a university known for its Title IX processes. In doing so, she suggests that combatting the epidemic of sexual violence on college campus involves both recognizing that sexual violence is part of larger systems of injustice and refining our definition of violence to encompass far more than individual moments of physical injury."--Provided by publisher
Tax Credits for College Tuition
No full textAuthor\u27s biography: Dr. Jill Lockwood is a professor of accounting and interim director of the School of Accountancy at Georgia Southern University. She can be reached at [email protected]
Golden Ages
No full textGolden Ages is an ethnographic study of young singers in the contemporary Brooklyn Hasidic community who base their aesthetic explorations of the culturally intimate space of prayer on the gramophone-era cantorial golden age. Jeremiah Lockwood proposes a view of their work as a nonconforming social practice that calls upon the sounds and structures of Jewish sacred musical heritage to disrupt the aesthetics and power hierarchies of their conservative community, defying institutional authority and pushing at normative boundaries of sacred and secular. Beyond its role as a desirable art form, golden age cantorial music offers aspiring Hasidic singers a form of Jewish cultural productivity in which artistic excellence, maverick outsider status, and sacred authority are aligned.
“In Golden Ages, Jeremiah Lockwood opens a window into the closed circle of Orthodox cantors seeking personal fulfillment and communal connection through a sometimes tense revival of classic cantorial recordings. His deep involvement with his collaborators enriches a study that has implications beyond Jewish life to broader issues of contemporary American spiritual expression and the ethnomusicology of religion.” — Mark Slobin, author of Chosen Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate
“Lockwood has an unparalleled ear for the intermingled dynamics of loss, creativity, and continuity. His special domain is Jews and their music, but his study speaks clearly to larger processes of cultural rescue and their limits.” — Jonathan Boyarin, author of Yeshiva Days: Learning on the Lower East Sid
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