They're everywhere in the academy: young, bright women mentored by older scholars, usually men, who attempt to mold them into their own masculine ideals. Janice Hocker Rushing's study of over 200 women and their life transformations is the subject of this eloquent book. Using th…
"Gender Futurity, Intersectional Autoethnography showcases a collection of narrative and autoethnographic research that unpacks the complexity of gender at its intersections, i.e. by ability, race, sexuality, religion, beauty, geography, spatiality, community, performance, polit…
"An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness, and Backpacker Tourism is a feminist narrative about the social rules of obedience and acquiescence to the norm - fatness, heteronormativity, partnering - and about fitting in, or not, with those narratives. Phiona Sta…
Goin' to the store, sittin' on the street, and runnin' the roads : growing up in a rural southern neighborhood -- Talking over fences : race matters -- Investigating the fisher folk and coping with ethical quagmires -- Re-living final negotiations -- Re-negotiating final negotia…
Distilling decades of work spanning their prestigious careers, Mary M. and Kenneth J. Gergen make a strong case for enriching the social sciences through performative work. They present a unique exploration of the origins of performative social science and provide an intellectua…
