An Ethical Approach to Encountering Nineteenth Century Girls

Frey, Heather Fitzsimmons

doi:10.3167/ghs.2016.090309

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“…3 I shared selections of my archival research with participants, including excerpts from letters and diaries, as well as drawings and cartoons in journals. For more details on some of these 19 th -century resources, see my article "An Ethical Approach to Encountering Nineteenth-Century Girls" (Fitzsimmons Frey, 2016) Bell's (1896) retelling of "The Sleeping Beauty" or Kate Freiligrath-Kroeker's (1881) "The Bear Prince. "…”

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“…This self-reflexive article hearkens back to 2014 when I began my own performance-based historiography research that aimed to put girls at the centre of the projects. As I have described previously (Fitzsimmons Frey, 2016) my approach is based on porous conceptions of time inspired by Doreen Massey (2005) and Rebecca Schneider (2011). The focus is on developing knowledge through what I call "encounters" between white, middleclass, 19 th -century English girls and 21 st -century girls living in Toronto (whom I describe in more detail below).…”

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“A Place Where It Was Acceptable To Be Unacceptable”: Twenty-First-Century Girls Encounter Nineteenth-Century Girls Through Amateur Theatricals and Dance

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2019

J Child. Stud.

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This self-reflexive article about girl-centered, performance-based historiography uses Carole Lynne D’Arcangelis’s cautions about self-reflexive research writing and Caroline Caron’s concerns about girl studies as activist research focused on social change to explore how the presence of girls and listening to girls shaped the knowledge that was created. By staging encounters between living 21st-century girls and 19th-century girls, the process reveals possibilities about the lives of girls in both eras. Encounters drew attention to issues concerning power, gender, agency, present-mindedness, emotion work, embodiment, and racialized identities. The article demonstrates how girls’ actions and insights complicated understandings about 19th-century girlhoods and at-home theatricals and, simultaneously, exposed power structures influencing their lives today and opportunities to work within or subvert them. Working through concepts like “radical reflexivity” (D’Arcangelis), “theatrical ethic of inappropriation” (Michelle Liu Carriger), “the wince” (Stephen Johnson), and the “foolish witness” (Julie Salverson), the article describes research pivot points and argues that ways of listening to girls alters how meaning is made.

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