The Narrative Study of Lives Volume 5

by Ruthellen Josselson; Amia Lieblich

• ISBN13: 9780761903246
• ISBN10: 0761903240
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-05-31
• Publisher: Sage Publications

Summary

The narrative approach is a relevant and enriching technique for uncovering, describing and interpreting the meaning of experience. This collection explores the challenges of performing narrative work in an academic setting, writing about it in an ethical and revealing fashion, and drawing meaningful conclusions.This stellar collection of scholars examine such topics as: how the larger construct of 'personality' can read out of a life story; the development of multicultural identity as a dynamic process; the transition away from delinquent behaviour; the importance of cultural continuity for understanding loneliness in elderly refugees; race relations and how it relates to the meaning of the decade in which the interviewees came of age; the experience and meaning of resilience among survivors of childhood sexual abuse; and the use of narrative work as an additional approach within a larger quantitative research project.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Amia Lieblich
1. The Discursive Construction of Personality	1	(20)
Pertti Alasuutari
2. National Identity or Multicultural Autobiography: Theoretical Concepts of Biographical Constitution Grounded in Case Reconstructions	21	(19)
Gabriele Rosenthal
3. Arbiters of Female Purity: Conversations With Israeli Ritual Bath Attendants	40	(19)
Susan Starr Sered
4. Going Straight: Desistance From Crime and Life Narratives of Reform	59	(35)
Shadd Maruna
5. Soldiers' Narratives of Selective Moral Resistance: A Separate Position of the Connected Self?	94	(19)
Ruth Linn
6. Loneliness in Cultural Context: A Look at the Life-History Narratives of Older Southeast Asian Refugee Women	113	(34)
Jane A. Bennett
Daniel F. Detzner
7. Lost in the Fifties: A Study of Collected Memories	147	(35)
Janelle L. Wilson
8. Adolescence, Gender, and the Development of Mental Health	182	(25)
Phame M. Camarena
Pamela A. Sarigiani
Anne C. Petersen
9. In Search of Resilience in Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Linking Outlets for Power Motivation to Psychological Health	207	(28)
Jacquelyn Boone James
Joan Huser Liem
Joan Gateley O'Toole
Index	235	(8)
About the Contributors	243