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New York University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2022

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Apr 27, 2018

My first encounter with the work of Janet and her colleagues was in 1990, as a first year PhD stu... more My first encounter with the work of Janet and her colleagues was in 1990, as a first year PhD student, when I came across a series of little purple booklets about WRAP–the Women Risk and Aids Project. Although I was interested in the topic of their research, it was their ways ...

The international journal of mental health promotion, May 1, 2002

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion VOLUME 4 ISSUE 2 MAY 2002 © The Clifford Beers F... more International Journal of Mental Health Promotion VOLUME 4 ISSUE 2 MAY 2002 © The Clifford Beers Foundation 31 In Preventing Violence James Gilligan puts forward a radically new approach to the problem of violence prevention. This is a powerful and convincing book, not least because it grows directly out of Gilligan’s 30 years of experience working in prisons as a psychotherapist and directing the provision of psychiatric services to the Massachusetts prisons and prison mental hospital. During this time he participated in, directed and evaluated violence prevention programmes for some of the most violent individuals in society. This visionary book, however, does not provide a list of tried and tested prevention programmes, but develops a new way of thinking about preventing violence, a set of principles underlying the causes and prevention of violence. Key to understanding Gilligan’s radical and alternative vision is the distinction he draws between two approaches to preventing violence. The first, which he terms the traditional moral and legal approach of the criminal justice system, asks ‘How evil is a particular act of violence, and how much punishment does the person who did it deserve?’. In the traditional approach, the more violent the individual, the more severely he is punished, and the more severely he is punished, the more violent he becomes. ‘Punishment’, writes Gilligan, ‘is the most powerful stimulus to violent behaviour that we have yet discovered’. For this reason, Gilligan suggests that the prevention of violence is dependent on the abolition of the traditional moral and legal approach. In contrast, Gilligan approaches the question of violence prevention from an empirical rather than a moral standpoint. He conceptualises violence as a problem in public health and preventative medicine. Violence, he argues, is a manifestation, form or symptom of pathology or illness. As with pathology, in order to prevent violence we need to understand its causes. The fundamental idea in Gilligan’s book is that shame and humiliation are the pathogens that cause violence. The degree to which a person experiences feelings of shame depends on the way that person is treated by other people and the degree to which they already feel proud or ashamed. Gilligan argues Preventing Violence

SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks, 2012

Routledge eBooks, Sep 10, 2012

University of Toronto Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2016

Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2017

Within chapter I suggest that normative ways of enacting research methods in the social sciences ... more Within chapter I suggest that normative ways of enacting research methods in the social sciences treat methods as readymade techniques for discovering pre-existing realities. Inspired by the work of North American feminist physicist and philosopher Karen Barad, I develop a ‘posthumanist performative’ approach to method. On this account, methods are understood as dynamic and open-ended practices that necessarily embody and enact specific, historically and culturally contingent, conceptual assumptions that help create realities in line with these assumptions. I illustrate my approach through a case study of Brown and Gilligan’s (Meeting at the crossroads: Women’s psychology and girl’s development, Harvard University Press, 1992) Listening Guide feminist method of narrative analysis, a method that I suggest was constituted by, and constitutive of, second-wave feminism and its representational identity-politics and voice-giving philosophical, theoretical, methodological and political project.

ver the past 10 years of teaching courses onresearch methods and feminist approaches tomethodolog... more ver the past 10 years of teaching courses onresearch methods and feminist approaches tomethodologies and epistemologies, a recurringquestion from our students concerns the distinctiveness offeminist approaches to methods, methodologies, and epis-temologies. This key question is posed in different ways: Isthere a specifically feminist method? Are there feministmethodologies and epistemologies, or simply feministapproaches to these? Given diversity and debates in femi-nist theory, how can there be a consensus on what consti-tutes “feminist” methodologies and epistemologies?Answers to these questions are far from straightforwardgiven the continually evolving nature of feminist reflec-tions on the methodological and epistemological dimen-sions and dilemmas of research. This chapter on feministmethodologies and epistemologies attempts to addressthese questions by tracing historical developments in thisarea, by considering what may be unique about feministepistemologies and feminist methodologies, by reviewingsome of sociology’s key contributions to this area of schol-arship and by highlighting some key emergent trends.The chapter begins with a brief overview of thetheoretical and historical development of feminist episte-mologies, followed by a similar overview of feministmethodologies. The final section discusses how feministepistemologies and feminist methodologies have begun tomerge into an area called

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Womens Studies International Forum, May 1, 1995

This article explores an aspect of women's experiences of postnatal depression that has rema... more This article explores an aspect of women's experiences of postnatal depression that has remained largely invisible within research in this subject area — namely, depressed mothers' social contacts with other mothers with young children. Evidence from a recent qualitative, empirical study of how and why some women feel depressed following childbirth indicates that the extent and nature of these relationships are critical to mothers' feelings of psychological and emotional well-being. Feelings of isolation from other mothers through depressed mothers' own social withdrawal from these women were associated with the onset of their depression. Conversely, the mothers linked their journeys out of depression to the renewal of these relationships. The article concludes by outlining some of the implications of these findings, both for further research and for policy issues related to postnatal depression.

... in part because the study of workplace change and family life has tended to remain as distinc... more ... in part because the study of workplace change and family life has tended to remain as distinct spheres of investigation (Deven et al ... simply as objects of research, this new approach repositions children as the subjects of research and as key social actors (Christensen and James ...