Voice, Play, and a Practice of Ordinary Courage in Girls' and Women's Lives

Rogers, Annie G.

doi:10.17763/haer.63.3.9141184q0j872407

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“…And I remember always how hurt Laura was, how lonely she looked when she realized that the group opposite her was not talking about her jeans. I see Laura every time I go about the job of helping another eighth grader find the strength to confront the dangers of "speaking her mind truthfully" (Rogers, 1993) instead of lingering, safe but silent, on the margins of the important conversations her peers are having.…”

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Public and Personal Voices in Adolescents' Classroom Talk

Phelps

Weaver

1999

Journal of Literacy Research

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Public and Personal Voices in Adolescents' Classroom Talk

Phelps

Weaver

1999

Journal of Literacy Research

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“…For women speaking in this voice, strength has lost its moral sway over them as a discourse-driven imposition on their thoughts and behaviors. In the place of strength, such women express "ordinary courage" (Rogers 1993) or the ability to make decisions while encompassing varied aspects of their subjectivity rather than solely or exclusively relying on the external definitions and expectations of self.…”

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Listening Past the Lies that Make Us Sick: A Voice-Centered Analysis of Strength and Depression among Black Women

Beauboeuf–Lafontant

2008

Qual Sociol

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An emerging feminist paradigm likens depression to silencing, as women disconnect from important aspects of their realities in an attempt to meet cultural standards of feminine goodness. While offering a provocative re-evaluation of hegemonic feminine norms and depressive episodes, little in this literature explores connections between silencing and depression within other, non-white constructions of feminine goodness. Employing a voice-centered method that illuminates areas of conflict between cultural scripts and individual meaning making, I forward that being strong is both the depiction of Black feminine goodness and an important contributor to depressive episodes. Drawing on interview data from a nonclinical sample of 58 Black women, I illustrate three depressionrelevant aspects of Black women's gendered experiences: the promotion of their stoicism, silence, and selflessness through the prevailing discourse of the "strong Black woman"; the active suppression of discourse-discrepant realities which the women associate with depressive experiences; and the psychological healing attendant on supplanting this discourse with experience-based knowledge of their social realities. Voice-centeredness, I conclude, brings a needed sensitivity to depression as a racialized and gendered experience of distress tied to the normative conditions of Black women's lives.Keywords Depression . Silencing . Voice . Strength . Black women The silencing paradigm: A feminist understanding of depression Many women in our society live in an untenable position, wedged between sociocultural expectations and their own human growth potential.... Yet women thirst to be more than the roles and behaviors that are ascribed to them, and therein lies the trap of depression. (Schreiber 1996, p. 490) To explain the fact that women are overwhelmingly the victims of depression, some feminist theorists and researchers have argued that its incidence is tied to normative

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“…Peers and romantic partners become increasingly important during adolescence, and perceptions of peer norms influence teens' sexual behavior (Doljanac and Zimmerman, 1998;Rogers, 1993;Whitaker and Miller, 2000). However, the link between peer/partner relationships and sexual behavior for troubled youths may be unique.…”

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Tracing the Roots of Early Sexual Debut Among Adolescents in Psychiatric Care

Donenberg¹,

Bryant²,

Emerson³

et al. 2003

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psych

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Objective: To identify the most important social and personal characteristics related to early sexual debut among troubled teenagers. Method:One hundred ninety-eight youths aged 12-19 years were recruited from outpatient mental health clinics and completed self-reports and interviews about their age of sexual debut; family, peer, and partner relationships (e.g., parental hostile control, negative peer influence, need for intimacy); and personal characteristics (e.g., achievement motivation, externalizing problems). Broad-band (externalizing, internalizing) and narrow-band (depression/anxiety, delinquency) psychopathology was assessed with the Youth Self-Report and Child Behavior Checklist.Results: Optimal Data Analysis was used to generate a classification tree model to identify variables associated with whether or not youths initiated oral, vaginal, and/or anal sexual activity before or after age 14. Three social context variables (parental hostile control, negative and positive peer influence) and one personal characteristic (externalizing problems) correctly classified 87.4% of teenagers as initiating sexual activity at ≤14 or >14 years of age. Conclusions:Parental behavior and peer influence were the most important variables associated with the timing of sexual debut. Results support a social-personal framework for understanding sexual risk-taking among adolescents in psychiatric care, and the data offer relatively strong evidence that specific factors could be used to identify troubled teens at risk for early sexual debut. Keywords adolescents; sexual debut; social-personal context; psychiatric careIt has been 20 years since the first case of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was diagnosed, and despite efforts to curb the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), rates of infection are rising among adolescents. Young people account for 25% of new sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) reported annually, and the number of HIV-infected youths doubles every 14 months (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 1998[CDC], , 2000a. Sexual activity is the primary mechanism of HIV transmission among teens (DiClemente, 1996;Pequagnat and Szapocznik, 2000), with 57% of males and 49% of females infected through sexual contact, but only 8% of males and 11% of females infected through intravenous drug use (CDC, 2000a). Teenagers are initiating sex at earlier ages (CDC, 2000a) NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript debut is associated with higher HIV exposure because it is linked to more frequent sexual intercourse, more lifetime STDs, less consistent contraceptive use, and more sexual partners (Brooks-Gunn and Paikoff, 1993; CDC, 1992;Durbin et al., 1993;Miller et al., 1999). Some youths are at greater risk than others. Teens in psychiatric care, for example, engage in higher rates of sexual risk-taking than their same-age peers (Brown et al., 1997;Donenberg et al., 2001); they initiate sex at earlier ages and report high rates of sex without a condom, sex w...

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Voice, Play, and a Practice of Ordinary Courage in Girls' and Women's Lives

Cited by 58 publications

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Public and Personal Voices in Adolescents' Classroom Talk

Public and Personal Voices in Adolescents' Classroom Talk

Listening Past the Lies that Make Us Sick: A Voice-Centered Analysis of Strength and Depression among Black Women

Tracing the Roots of Early Sexual Debut Among Adolescents in Psychiatric Care

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