Investigating Subjectivity

Much has been missed by social researchers in their attempt to understand the human experience as a series of rational, cognitive choices. Human subjectivity in lived experience, both that of the subject and that of the researcher, is the topic of this volume, an important corrective to the detached stance of most previous social research.

The contributors examine various aspects of the subject - the emotions, the gendered nature of experience, the body-mind relationship, perceptions of time, place and setting, understanding of the self - and explore how these elements provide a fuller understanding of the human condition.

An Agenda for the Interpretation of Lived Experience - Carolyn Ellis and Michael G Flaherty
PART ONE: INTERPRETING TEXTS
The Many Faces of Emotionality - Norman K Denzin
Reading
Persona
Archival Research in Intertextual Analysis - Laurel Graham
Four Representations of a Year in the Life of Dr Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Women s Subjectivity and Feminist Stories - Bronwyn Davies
PART TWO: CREATING TEXTS
Telling and Performing Personal Stories - Carolyn Ellis and Arthur Bochner
the Constraints of Choice in Abortion
The Reflexive Self through Narrative - Carol Rambo Ronai
A Night in the Life of an Erotic Dancer/Researcher
The Consequences of Poetic Representation - Laurel Richardson
Writing the Other, Re-Writing the Self
PART THREE: EXPERIENCING SUBJECTIVITY
The Erotics of Hermeneutics of Temporality - Michael G Flaherty
Wild Life - Gary Alan Fine
Authenticity and the Human Experience of `Natural Places
The Trail Through Experience - Mark Neuman
Finding Self in the Recollection of Travel
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TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE SELF
Extraordinary Events and Mundane Ailments - Virginia Olesen
The Contextual Dialectics of the Embodied Self
The Self, Its Voices, and Their Discord - John Gagnon