Making Stories, Making Selves: Feminist Reflections on the Holocaust.

Linden, Robin Ruth

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“…Deep listening can take the form of closely examining the micro-aspects of talk in interviews, as is taken up in ethnomethodological approaches that illuminate listening, silences, interruptions, and other aspects of talk-in-interaction (DeVault, 1990). Careful listening requires that a feminist researcher listen for silences, such as in Linden's (1993) analysis of Holocaust survivors, where Linden found that some silences stood in for memories of experiences were too horrific to be described. Posthumanist and feminist approaches to interviewing by Mazzei (2013) and Taguchi (2012) encourage listening to phenomena that is often regarded as minor, and to listen to the "voices" not only from human subjects, but from complex and entangled human and nonhuman phenomena.…”

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“…Self-reported reflexivity and critical self-reflection can be productive ways for feminist researchers and interviewers to attend to issues of power and positionality, ethics, and accountability to feminist political action. For instance, it took reflexive work on the part of Linden (1993) to realize that traditional practice of assigning pseudonyms for confidentiality was not appropriate for her participants who were Jewish Holocaust survivors. Because the participants in Linden's (1993) study had been stripped of their names and referred to as numbers in concentration camps, the survivors did not view the use of pseudonyms as protective, but as another erasure of their experiences.…”

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“…For instance, it took reflexive work on the part of Linden (1993) to realize that traditional practice of assigning pseudonyms for confidentiality was not appropriate for her participants who were Jewish Holocaust survivors. Because the participants in Linden's (1993) study had been stripped of their names and referred to as numbers in concentration camps, the survivors did not view the use of pseudonyms as protective, but as another erasure of their experiences. These examples of feminist interviews in the research literature highlight the interrelated network of creative strategies, listening skills, and researcher reflexivity that allow for more participantcentered feminist interviewing.…”

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This article explores the evolving concept of feminist interviewing and its contemporary use, exploring key conceptual moments from the past 40 years of feminist interviewing, and concluding with current implications for feminist researchers interested in using qualitative interviews in social science research. Faced with multiple possibilities for approaching feminist interviewing, this article argues for the importance of cultivating an ecosystem of care, a framework for inviting stories rather than coercively courting headlines. Considering various approaches to feminist methodology and interviewing, this article suggests using the theoretical framing of “feminism for the 99%” to guide the use of feminist interviewing in our current moment to cultivate feminist ecosystems of care and avoid dominating practices in research.

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Considering (irreconcilable?) contradictions in cross-group feminist research

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This article maintains that all research involves crossing (i.e., researching across di ¶ erence) and then explores how scholars have approached issues of cross-group feminist research. The article is divided into three major sections. The rst section explores issues of women's diversity and their meaning for cross-group feminist research. The second investigates concerns raised with regard to contradictions inherent in this type of research. The third section reviews and discusses a number of strategies feminist and other scholars of qualitative research have used to address problematic issues and contradictions involved in cross-group research.The man over there says women need to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages or over puddles, or gives me the best place -and ain't I a woman ? … I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me -and ain't I a woman ? I could work as much and eat as much as a man -when I could get it -and bear the lash as well ! And ain't I a woman ? [italics added] (Truth quoted in Flexner, 1975, p. 91) During a meeting for women's rights in Akron, Ohio, a freed slave, Sojourner Truth, responded with the above words to an Anglo clergyman who argued that women were unable to vote because they were too delicate. Just as Sojourner's words served to explicate the incongruency of her lived experiences with that of Southern White females a century and a half ago, contemporary feminists have problematized the adequacy of a singular de nition of woman. Di ¶ ering conditions of life de ne what constitutes being a woman.The subject of di ¶ erence and how di ¶ erence should or should not be researched and represented is the focus of discussions among many feminists today (Fine, 1994 ;Reinharz, 1992 ;Sawicki, 1994). Theories of di ¶ erence, of course, are not new to feminism. There has been much discussion over the years concerning the nature and status of women's di ¶ erences from men (e.g., biological, psychological, cultural). Contemporary theories of gender di ¶ erence have also emphasized the shared experiences of women across the divisions of race, class, age, and other di ¶ erences. In such theories, the diversity of women's lives and activities have often been lumped into the category '' women's experience, '' presumably in an e ¶ ort to provide a basis for a collective feminist subject, emancipatory theory, and identity politics. More recently, however, it is the di ¶ erences among women (e.g., race, class, and sexual orientation) that have moved to the forefront of theoretical discussions.In this essay I review and analyze how qualitative researchers have approached issues of cross-group feminist research (i.e., researching across di ¶ erence). First, I explore the issue of women's diversity and what is meant by cross-group feminist research. I then take up issues and concerns raised with regard to contradictions

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Making Stories, Making Selves: Feminist Reflections on the Holocaust.

Abstract: Making stories, making selves: feminist reflections on the Holocaust / R. Ruth Linden. p. cm.-(The Helen Hooven Santmyer prize in women's studies) Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cited by 13 publications

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40 Years of Qualitative Feminist Interviewing: Conceptual Moments and Cultivating Ecosystems of Care

40 Years of Qualitative Feminist Interviewing: Conceptual Moments and Cultivating Ecosystems of Care

A yiddishe mame desperately seeking a Mame Loshn

Considering (irreconcilable?) contradictions in cross-group feminist research

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