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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
Guidelines for Data Annotation
No full textIncluded here are a coding manual and supplementary examples of gesture forms (in still images and video recordings) that informed the coding of the first author (Kate Mesh) and four project reliability coders
Declining Unionization, Rising Inequality: an Interview with Kate Bronfenbrenner
No full textKate Bronfenbrenner is director of labor education research at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. She worked for many years as an organizer with the United Woodcutters Association in Mississippi and the Service Employees International Union in Boston. She is the author, co-author and editor of numerous books and articles on union strategies
Kate Richards: madness
No full textKate Richards’ bleakly beautiful, confronting and important book, Madness: A Memoir, describes her 15 years coping with psychosis and depression, and her long, hard-won journey back to sanity, with the help of a wise and compassionate psychologist.
In this video, she speaks with Ranjana Srivastava, an oncologist and fellow author, about her experience – and about being able to write from deep within it, with expertise as both a medical researcher and writer.
 
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
Book signing by SC author and illustrator Kate Salley Palmer
No full textPhotograph of Book signing by SC author and illustrator Kate Salley Palme
SC author and illustrator Kate Salley Palmer signing book
No full textPhotograph of SC author and illustrator Kate Salley Palmer signing boo
Replication Data for Statistical Analysis
No full textIncluded here is a dataset with gesture form coding from the study author (Kate Mesh). Statistical analysis of the dataset was performed using R version 3.6.1 (R Core Team, 2019), with the package, lmer (Bates, Maechler, Bolcher & Walker, 2015). An R script is attached for the purposes of replication.
R Core Team (2019). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. URL https://www.R-project.org/.
Douglas Bates, Martin Maechler, Ben Bolker, Steve Walker (2015). Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4. Journal of Statistical Software, 67(1), 1-48. doi:10.18637/jss.v067.i01
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