Making Meaning of Narratives

by Ruthellen Josselson

• ISBN13: 9780761903260
• ISBN10: 0761903267
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-05
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc

Summary

The sixth volume in this series provides: guides for doing qualitative research; analysis of several autobiographies; hints on how to interpret what it not said in narrative interviews; discussion on how cultural meanings and values are transmitted across generations; and illustrations of the transformational power of stories.

Author Biography

Tineke A. Abma, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands Mary E. Casey is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education Barbara Crowther is Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK Dora Shu-fang Dien is Professor Emerita of Human Development at California State University, Hayward Paul John Eakin teaches English at Indiana University Jennifer Ekert is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education Elina Haavio-Mannila is Professor of Sociology at the University of Helsinki, Finland James Holland is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education Wendy Hollway is a reader in gender relations in the Department of Psychology, University of Leeds Tony Jefferson is Professor of Criminology in the Department of Criminology, University of Keele Ruthellen Josselson is Professor of Psychology at Towson University and on the faculty of The Fielding Institute Amia Lieblich is Professor of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Beverly Mizrachi is Lecturer in Sociology at Ashkelon Regional College and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Victoria Nakkula is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen is Professor of Women's Studies and Head of Research at the Centre for Feminist Research at the University of Oslo June Price is Assistant Professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey, and a clinical nursing specialist in child psychiatry Annie G. Rogers is Associate Professor of Human Development and Psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education J. P. Roos is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Helsinki Nurit Sheinberg is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Ruthellen Josselson
In Acknowledgment: A Review and Critique of Qualitative Research Texts	1	(24)
June Price
Autobiography and the Value Structures of Ordinary Experience: Marianne Gullestad's	25	(20)
Paul John Eakin
``Black Holes'' as Sites for Self-Constructions	45	(32)
Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen
An Interpretive Poetics of Languages of the Unsayable	77	(30)
Annie G. Rogers
Mary E. Casey
Jennifer Ekert
James Holland
Victoria Nakkula
Nurit Sheinberg
Gender, Generation, Anxiety, and the Reproduction of Culture	107	(34)
Wendy Hollway
Tony Jefferson
The Recruitment of Women Into the Academic Elite in Israel: Anna's Narrative	141	(28)
Beverly Mizrachi
Powerful Stories: The Role of Stories in Sustaining and Transforming Professional Practice Within a Mental Hospital	169	(28)
Tineke A. Abma
Writing as Performance: Young Girl's Diaries	197	(24)
Barbara Crowther
Ding Ling and Miss Sophie's Diary: A Psychobiographical Study of Adolescent Identity Formation	221	(18)
Dora Shu-fang Dien
Love Stories in Sexual Autobiographies	239	(36)
Elina Haavio-Mannila
J. P. Roos
Index	275	(4)
About the Authors	279