Reciprocal Ethnography and the Power of Women's Narratives (eBook)

Elaine J. Lawless (Autor)

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2019
214 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04299-6 (ISBN)

Infos

1. Elaine Lawless coined the term "reciprocal ethnography." It's a way of doing ethnography where the researcher shares their observations with the individuals and communities they are observing and then includes the resulting dialog in their results. Its aim is to produce more ethical work by giving voice to the communities and people involved.
2. This book focuses in particular on the importance of women's narratives and is an important resource for women's studies departments and feminist scholars in the era of the #metoo and #timesup movements. Lawless' work on reciprocal ethnography and women's studies are considered to be her major contributions to the field of folklore.
3. The book includes a foreword by Folklorist, Amy Shuman, which places Elaine's work into context, both historical and its relevance to the field.

Lawless's methods and research continue to be critically relevant in today's global struggle for gender equality.

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Folklorist Elaine J. Lawless has devoted her career to ethnographic research with underserved groups in the American Midwest, including charismatic Pentecostals, clergywomen, victims of domestic violence, and displaced African Americans. She has consistently focused her research on women's speech in these contexts and has developed a new approach to ethnographic research which she calls "e;reciprocal ethnography,"e; while growing a detailed corpus of work on women's narrative style and expressive speech. Reciprocal ethnography is a feminist and collaborative ethnographic approach that Lawless developed as a challenge to the reflexive turn in anthropological fieldwork and research in the 1970s, which was often male-centric, ignoring the contributions by and study of women's culture. Collected here for the first time are Lawless's key articles on the topics of reciprocal ethnography and women's narrative which influenced not only folklore, but also the allied fields of anthropology, sociology, performance studies, and women's and gender studies. Lawless's methods and research continue to be critically relevant in today's global struggle for gender equality.

Autoren

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Amy Shuman is Professor of English at The Ohio State University. She is author of Other People's Stories: Entitlement Claims and the Critique of Empathy and author with Carol Bohmer of Political Asylum Deceptions: The Culture of Suspicion.

Elaine J. Lawless is Curators' Distinguished Professor Emerita of English and Folklore Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and Religious Studies at the University of Missouri. She is author of multiple books including The Liberation of Winifred Bryan Horner: Writer, Teacher, and Women's Rights Advocate, Women Escaping Violence: Empowerment Through Narrative, and When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics and Community in Pinhook, Missouri.

Inhalt

Foreword / Amy Shuman

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Learning to Listen, Hear, and Include Women's Voices: The Genesis of Reciprocal Ethnography

1. Shouting for the Lord: The Power of Women's Speech in the Pentecostal Religious Service

2. Rescripting Their Lives and Narratives: Spiritual Life Stories of Pentecostal Women Preachers

3. Access to the Pulpit: Reproductive Images and Maternal Strategies of the Pentecostal Female Pastor

4. "I was afraid someone like you . . . an outsider . . . would misunderstand": Negotiating Interpretive Differences Between Ethnographers and Subjects

5. Women's Life Stories and Reciprocal Ethnography as Feminist and Emergent

6. Writing the Body in the Pulpit: Female-sexed Texts

7. Woman as Abject: Resisting Cultural and Religious Myths that Condone Violence Against Women

Appendix: Selected Publications by Elaine J. Lawless

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.8.2019
• Vorwort: Amy Shuman
• Zusatzinfo: 1 table
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Abuse • Anthropology • ethnography • feminist • Folklore • narrative • Oral History • pentecostal • Preacher • reciprocal • Reciprocal Ethnography • Religion • Reproduction • Sexual Abuse • Stories • Violence • Women
• ISBN-10: 0-253-04299-2 / 0253042992
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-04299-6 / 9780253042996