... 209 The Politics of Identity in Women's Narratives BARBARA ELLEN SMITH 14. Sexual Harass... more ... 209 The Politics of Identity in Women's Narratives BARBARA ELLEN SMITH 14. Sexual Harassment Protection for Whom? 223 The Case of Women in Part-Time, Temporary, and Independent Contractor Employment DULA J. ESPINOSA Contributors 231 Index 235 Page 11.
Using a semi-autoethnographic layered account format, we present the voices of 16 Native American... more Using a semi-autoethnographic layered account format, we present the voices of 16 Native American adults as they talk about their lives and Native American Caricature Iconography (NACI). First, we explore their impressions and lived experiences with "racial formation projects" such as tribal identification cards, blood quantum calculations, genocide, child removal, boarding schools, and reservations, to contextualize why some Native Americans interpret NACI as much more than "an honor," "tradition," or "just good fun." Next, we explore the Native Americans' perceptions of sports mascots, cartoons, and sculpture, after exposing them to a series of eight images of NACI. We conclude that NACIs are racial formation projects as well. By unmindfully producing and consuming NACI, we fail to interrupt and reform the racial formation projects that continue to define us all.
carol rambo ronai sobre amor y odio a madre don retraso mental carlo rambo ronai I I I traducido ... more carol rambo ronai sobre amor y odio a madre don retraso mental carlo rambo ronai I I I traducido por fabian sainz En este articulo he explorado por que amo y odio a mi madre. Es una observation participante retrospectiva y en curso del hecho de ser la hija de una madre con retraso mental. En el, hago uso de una narracion por nivelesun formato de informe experimental, postmoderno, etnografico que permite a 10s investigadores recurrir a recursos variados, como la teoria social, la experiencia vivida y las emociones. Al usar mi propia experiencia exploro, mediante la narracion en primera persona, 10s aspectos complejos y emociones implicadas. Mi conclusion es que la situacion esta cargada de ambivalencia porque mis interacciones actuales con mi madre se dan a la 11-12de un pasado en el que mi madre me maltrataba y protegia a la vez. E In this article Ihave explored why Ilove and hate my mother. Itis a retrospective and ongoing participant observation o f the phenomenon o f being the daughter o f a mother with mental retardation. In it, Imake use o f a Layered accountan experimental, postmodern, ethnographic reporting format that enables researchers to use varied resources, such as social theory, lived experience, and emotions. By using my own experience, 1 explore, through M p e r w n narrative, the complex issues and
Abstract For this project, we analyzed in-depth life history materials from interviews with twelv... more Abstract For this project, we analyzed in-depth life history materials from interviews with twelve former self-injurers. Eschewing a medical/psychological approach to self-injury, our primary goal was to discover how study participants used the discourse of self-injury as a narrative resource to construct their identity. Our study participants drew on pathology exemplars and alternative frames to make sense of their lives and selves. In this article, the lines between so-called self-injury and other socially sanctioned behaviors became blurred. We call for an approach to the topic that is more consciously aware of the socially constructed nature of the phenomenon.
This article is a playfully assembled amalgamation of reflections on field notes the author gathe... more This article is a playfully assembled amalgamation of reflections on field notes the author gathered in the early fall of 1992 while locating striptease dancers willing to be interviewed for her dissertation research. Coupling systematic sociological introspection and a layered account format, the author "teases out" her relationship with an informant, as well as her roles as a researcher and a striptease dancer, using various non-concepts from Jacques Derrida. With these resources, the author explores the experience of having ambiguous role identities, while she "plays" with the liminal qualities ofher format, the layered account. The layered account serves as her mystic writing pad as she sketches, erases, and sketches again, her impressions of her informant and their experiences together.
This “layered account” of the author’s night dancing and wrestling with Kitty’s All Girl Review, ... more This “layered account” of the author’s night dancing and wrestling with Kitty’s All Girl Review, for the purposes of gaining access to her male and female striptease dancers, is and is not Part 2 of an article that appeared in the September 1998 issue of Qualitative Inquiry. Making use of the metaphor of drawing, the author invokes Derrida’s nonconcepts of “mimesis” and “sous rature” as a lens through which to view her lived experiences with the troupe, identity, and writing. As each layer is superimposed on prior layers, new meanings emerge. All images and impressions are subject to erasure at any time given the absence of a one-to-one correspondence of representation to reality and the changing nature of relationships between performers over time and from differing perspectives. Ultimately, lived experience, identity, and writing can be seen as simultaneous processes of destruction and creation.
Page 1. ARTHUR B. SHOSTAK unsparing reflections, uncommon gains Page 2. Page 3. Private Sociology... more Page 1. ARTHUR B. SHOSTAK unsparing reflections, uncommon gains Page 2. Page 3. Private Sociology Unsparing Reflections, Uncommon Gains This One QE3H-QGH-HR2X Page 4. THE REYNOLDS SERIES IN SOCIOLOGY ...
... 209 The Politics of Identity in Women's Narratives BARBARA ELLEN SMITH 14. Sexual Harass... more ... 209 The Politics of Identity in Women's Narratives BARBARA ELLEN SMITH 14. Sexual Harassment Protection for Whom? 223 The Case of Women in Part-Time, Temporary, and Independent Contractor Employment DULA J. ESPINOSA Contributors 231 Index 235 Page 11.
Chapter 15 Claiming the Bodies of Exotic Dancers: The Problematic Discourse of Commodification Ca... more Chapter 15 Claiming the Bodies of Exotic Dancers: The Problematic Discourse of Commodification Carol Rambo, Sara Renee Presley and Don Mynatt Much like the meanings of black bodies examined in Chapter Fourteen, which are framed within existent ideological discursive ...
This performance autoethnography is a reflexive account of how my autoethnographic manuscript ent... more This performance autoethnography is a reflexive account of how my autoethnographic manuscript entitled "An Unloaded Gun: Negotiating the Boundaries of Identity, Incest, and Student/Teacher Relationships," was accepted for publication at Deviant Behavior and then blocked by the IRB at the University of Memphis. The overt reasons for the "denial of approval" differ greatly from accounts of reasons given behind closed doors. By weaving layers of my experience, excerpts from my manuscript, and the responses of others, into a narrative, I create an ongoing performance ethnography which resists the "tacit norm of silence" regarding discussions of incest and student/teacher attraction. In addition, by framing autoethnography as a breach of the academic norms regarding scientific inquiry, I can start to make sense of how IRB as a committee of individuals used the resources at hand such as the existing conservative religious/political context, their individual identities, the formal roles they were being asked to enact, and the written rules they had before them, to co-construct a narrative which rendered my manuscript un-publishable.
... 209 The Politics of Identity in Women's Narratives BARBARA ELLEN SMITH 14. Sexual Harass... more ... 209 The Politics of Identity in Women's Narratives BARBARA ELLEN SMITH 14. Sexual Harassment Protection for Whom? 223 The Case of Women in Part-Time, Temporary, and Independent Contractor Employment DULA J. ESPINOSA Contributors 231 Index 235 Page 11.
Using a semi-autoethnographic layered account format, we present the voices of 16 Native American... more Using a semi-autoethnographic layered account format, we present the voices of 16 Native American adults as they talk about their lives and Native American Caricature Iconography (NACI). First, we explore their impressions and lived experiences with "racial formation projects" such as tribal identification cards, blood quantum calculations, genocide, child removal, boarding schools, and reservations, to contextualize why some Native Americans interpret NACI as much more than "an honor," "tradition," or "just good fun." Next, we explore the Native Americans' perceptions of sports mascots, cartoons, and sculpture, after exposing them to a series of eight images of NACI. We conclude that NACIs are racial formation projects as well. By unmindfully producing and consuming NACI, we fail to interrupt and reform the racial formation projects that continue to define us all.
carol rambo ronai sobre amor y odio a madre don retraso mental carlo rambo ronai I I I traducido ... more carol rambo ronai sobre amor y odio a madre don retraso mental carlo rambo ronai I I I traducido por fabian sainz En este articulo he explorado por que amo y odio a mi madre. Es una observation participante retrospectiva y en curso del hecho de ser la hija de una madre con retraso mental. En el, hago uso de una narracion por nivelesun formato de informe experimental, postmoderno, etnografico que permite a 10s investigadores recurrir a recursos variados, como la teoria social, la experiencia vivida y las emociones. Al usar mi propia experiencia exploro, mediante la narracion en primera persona, 10s aspectos complejos y emociones implicadas. Mi conclusion es que la situacion esta cargada de ambivalencia porque mis interacciones actuales con mi madre se dan a la 11-12de un pasado en el que mi madre me maltrataba y protegia a la vez. E In this article Ihave explored why Ilove and hate my mother. Itis a retrospective and ongoing participant observation o f the phenomenon o f being the daughter o f a mother with mental retardation. In it, Imake use o f a Layered accountan experimental, postmodern, ethnographic reporting format that enables researchers to use varied resources, such as social theory, lived experience, and emotions. By using my own experience, 1 explore, through M p e r w n narrative, the complex issues and
Abstract For this project, we analyzed in-depth life history materials from interviews with twelv... more Abstract For this project, we analyzed in-depth life history materials from interviews with twelve former self-injurers. Eschewing a medical/psychological approach to self-injury, our primary goal was to discover how study participants used the discourse of self-injury as a narrative resource to construct their identity. Our study participants drew on pathology exemplars and alternative frames to make sense of their lives and selves. In this article, the lines between so-called self-injury and other socially sanctioned behaviors became blurred. We call for an approach to the topic that is more consciously aware of the socially constructed nature of the phenomenon.
This article is a playfully assembled amalgamation of reflections on field notes the author gathe... more This article is a playfully assembled amalgamation of reflections on field notes the author gathered in the early fall of 1992 while locating striptease dancers willing to be interviewed for her dissertation research. Coupling systematic sociological introspection and a layered account format, the author "teases out" her relationship with an informant, as well as her roles as a researcher and a striptease dancer, using various non-concepts from Jacques Derrida. With these resources, the author explores the experience of having ambiguous role identities, while she "plays" with the liminal qualities ofher format, the layered account. The layered account serves as her mystic writing pad as she sketches, erases, and sketches again, her impressions of her informant and their experiences together.
This “layered account” of the author’s night dancing and wrestling with Kitty’s All Girl Review, ... more This “layered account” of the author’s night dancing and wrestling with Kitty’s All Girl Review, for the purposes of gaining access to her male and female striptease dancers, is and is not Part 2 of an article that appeared in the September 1998 issue of Qualitative Inquiry. Making use of the metaphor of drawing, the author invokes Derrida’s nonconcepts of “mimesis” and “sous rature” as a lens through which to view her lived experiences with the troupe, identity, and writing. As each layer is superimposed on prior layers, new meanings emerge. All images and impressions are subject to erasure at any time given the absence of a one-to-one correspondence of representation to reality and the changing nature of relationships between performers over time and from differing perspectives. Ultimately, lived experience, identity, and writing can be seen as simultaneous processes of destruction and creation.
Page 1. ARTHUR B. SHOSTAK unsparing reflections, uncommon gains Page 2. Page 3. Private Sociology... more Page 1. ARTHUR B. SHOSTAK unsparing reflections, uncommon gains Page 2. Page 3. Private Sociology Unsparing Reflections, Uncommon Gains This One QE3H-QGH-HR2X Page 4. THE REYNOLDS SERIES IN SOCIOLOGY ...
... 209 The Politics of Identity in Women's Narratives BARBARA ELLEN SMITH 14. Sexual Harass... more ... 209 The Politics of Identity in Women's Narratives BARBARA ELLEN SMITH 14. Sexual Harassment Protection for Whom? 223 The Case of Women in Part-Time, Temporary, and Independent Contractor Employment DULA J. ESPINOSA Contributors 231 Index 235 Page 11.
Chapter 15 Claiming the Bodies of Exotic Dancers: The Problematic Discourse of Commodification Ca... more Chapter 15 Claiming the Bodies of Exotic Dancers: The Problematic Discourse of Commodification Carol Rambo, Sara Renee Presley and Don Mynatt Much like the meanings of black bodies examined in Chapter Fourteen, which are framed within existent ideological discursive ...
This performance autoethnography is a reflexive account of how my autoethnographic manuscript ent... more This performance autoethnography is a reflexive account of how my autoethnographic manuscript entitled "An Unloaded Gun: Negotiating the Boundaries of Identity, Incest, and Student/Teacher Relationships," was accepted for publication at Deviant Behavior and then blocked by the IRB at the University of Memphis. The overt reasons for the "denial of approval" differ greatly from accounts of reasons given behind closed doors. By weaving layers of my experience, excerpts from my manuscript, and the responses of others, into a narrative, I create an ongoing performance ethnography which resists the "tacit norm of silence" regarding discussions of incest and student/teacher attraction. In addition, by framing autoethnography as a breach of the academic norms regarding scientific inquiry, I can start to make sense of how IRB as a committee of individuals used the resources at hand such as the existing conservative religious/political context, their individual identities, the formal roles they were being asked to enact, and the written rules they had before them, to co-construct a narrative which rendered my manuscript un-publishable.
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