Expressions of Aggression in the Life Stories of Aged Women

Ruth, Jan‐Erik; Öberg, Peter

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“…These narratives, drawing on the ''personal as political'' (David 2003), also starkly illuminate the ineffectiveness of policy to bring about social and political change to reflect such interactions within issues of gender, education and society (e.g. Pillay 2007;Rollock 2007;Peterson 2006;Reay 1998Reay , 2005Sheldon 2004;David 2003, Collins 2000hooks 2000;Kimmel 2000;Arnot et al 1999;Thomas 1999;Weiler and Middleton 1999;David and Woodward 1998;Maguire 1996;Morley andWalsh 1995, 1996;Ross 1996;Morris 1993a, b;Ruth and Ö berg 1992;Matthews 1983).…”

Section: Intersectionalitymentioning

confidence: 96%

Gender, Narratives and Intersectionality: can Personal Experience Approaches to Research Contribute to “Undoing Gender”?

Cole

2009

Int Rev Educ

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This paper examines narrative methodologies as one approach to exploring issues of gender, education and social justice and, particularly, insights into ''undoing gender''. It furthermore examines the possibilities of exploring gender and its multiple intersections in a range of global and policy contexts through the use of personal experience approaches. The ''storying'' of lived experience is examined as a means of challenging dominant discourses which can construct and other individuals and groups in relation to many aspects of gender and education. Drawing on intersectionality, as a complex and developing feminist theory, the paper considers ways in which narrative can illuminate often hidden complexities while seeking to avoid generalisations and essentialisms. The difficulties of using narrative in relation to these aims are explored in the light of the warnings of feminist writers such as Michele Fine and bell hooks. The paper briefly considers narrative as both methodology and phenomenon, and finally, drawing on critical discourse analysis, discusses the potential of intersectionality and narrative in relation to undoing gender.Re´sume´-GENRE, RÉ CITS ET INTERSECTIONNALITÉ : L'EXPÉ RIENCE PERSONNELLE APPLIQUÉ E À LA RECHERCHE PEUT-ELLE CONTRIBUER À « DÉ FAIRE LE GENRE » ? -Cet article examine les me´thodologies narratives en tant qu'approche pour explorer les questions de genre, d'e´ducation et de justice sociale, et en particulier pour aborder la question de «de´faire le genre». L'auteure analyse en outre les possibilite´s d'e´tudier la question du genre et ses nombreuses intersections avec plusieurs contextes mondiaux et strate´giques a`travers les approches de l'expe´rience personnelle. La narration de l'expe´rience ve´cue est examine´e comme moyen de contester les discours dominants, qui peuvent construire et rendre autres les individus et les groupes par rapport a`de nombreux aspects du genre et de l'e´ducation. À partir de l'intersectionnalite´, the´orie fe´ministe e´mergente et complexe, l'auteure e´tudie comment le re´cit peut e´clairer des complexite´s souvent masque´es tout en s'efforc¸ant d'e´viter les ge´ne´rali-sations et essentialismes. Les difficulte´s d'utiliser le re´cit par rapport a`ces objectifs sont analyse´es a`la lumie`re des mises en garde d'e´crivaines fe´ministes telles que Michele Fine et bell hooks. L'auteure aborde brie`vement le re´cit en tant que me´thodologie et phe´nome`ne et examine finalement, a`partir d'une analyse critique du discours, le potentiel de l'intersectionnalite´et du re´cit en vue de de´construire les ine´galite´s sexuelles.

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Section: Intersectionalitymentioning

confidence: 96%

Gender, Narratives and Intersectionality: can Personal Experience Approaches to Research Contribute to “Undoing Gender”?

Cole

2009

Int Rev Educ

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“…l 12 And while they sometimes exist in tension or conflict, sociocultural structures "commonly" reinforce or exaggerate biological dlfferences.U:' This seems to be the case in regards to aggressive be' haviors, for while women tend to utilize indirect and covert aggression in part because they have internalized sociocultural images of appropriate female be, havior, they also do this because of a conscious or unconscious recognition that they are at a disadvantage physiologically in confrontations with men, because men on average are larger and heavier and have more muscle'mass in their upper bodies. 114 On the one hand, this difference in biology to some degree underlies the difference in sociocultural images, for males have specialized in hunting and physical combat since Paleolithic times, and have augmented this basic biological difference with individual training in fighting, the use of increasingly complex and lethal weapons, and an expanding scale of group cooperation, fur, ther magnifying the differential coercive power of men and women. us It seems significant that in many simple societies men and women are thought to have similar, if not always the same, propensities to use magical powers, while in Western civilization, dominated by male violence, male government, and male religion, females have come to be seen as particularly likely to rely on occult forms of power.…”

Section: Female Aggression In Cross Cultural and Biological Persmentioning

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Witchcraft, Female Aggression, and Power in the Early Modern Community

Bever

2002

Journal of Social History

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“…As developed by Glaser and Strauss (1967), grounded theory does not seek to force data to conform with existing theory but rather develops theory and interpretive categories that are grounded in the data itself. For example, Ruth and Oberg (1992) used grounded theory to analyze the collected life stories of several women, grouped qualitatively similar life stories together into categories, and then labeled the categories by their dominant qualities. Thus, commonalities existing across life stories were uncovered.'…”

Section: Representation and Interpretationmentioning

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Known in Part: The Transformational Power of Narrative Inquiry

Hones

1998

Qualitative Inquiry

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This article explores the unique possibilities offered by narrative research for fostering continued communication between the researcher/self and diverse others. The first part of the article provides an overview of narrative research as a mode of inquiry and addresses representational and interpretive dilemmas arising in life history research with Shou Cher, a refugee from Laos. The second part of the article presents a series of narrative dialogues between Shou Cher and the researcher. These dialogues take the form of juxtaposed stories and interpretations, transcribed conversations, and reflections on the place of the poetic voice in qualitative research. The final part of this article contains some suggestions for others who may wish to explore the use of life history and narrative in their own journeys between the academy and the community, between the Self and the Other.In Keepmg Slug Woman Alive, Greg Sarris (1993) reflects on the difficulties he experiences and the insights he gains from doing the life history of Mabel McKay, a Pomo medicine woman whom he has known since childhood. He concludes that such work is best envisioned as a dialogue of discovery of the Self and the Other.

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Expressions of Aggression in the Life Stories of Aged Women

Cited by 11 publications

References 2 publications

Gender, Narratives and Intersectionality: can Personal Experience Approaches to Research Contribute to “Undoing Gender”?

Gender, Narratives and Intersectionality: can Personal Experience Approaches to Research Contribute to “Undoing Gender”?

Witchcraft, Female Aggression, and Power in the Early Modern Community

Known in Part: The Transformational Power of Narrative Inquiry

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