Title Reciprocal ethnography and the power of women's narratives / Elaine J. Lawless ; foreword by Amy Shuman

Published Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, Office of Scholarly Publishing, Herman B Wells Library, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction: Learning to listen, hear, and include women's voices; the genesis of reciprocal ethnography -- Shouting for the Lord: the power of women's speech in the Pentecostal religious service -- Rescripting their lives and narratives: spiritual life stories of Pentecostal women preachers -- Access to the pulpit: reproductive images and maternal strategies of the Pentecostal female pastor -- "I was afraid someone like you...an outsider...would misunderstand": negotiating interpretive differences between ethnographers and subjects -- Women's life stories and reciprocal ethnography as feminist and emergent -- Writing the body in the pulpit: female-sexed texts -- Woman as abject: resisting cultural and religious myths that condone violence against women Summary "Folklorist Elaine J. Lawless has devoted her career to ethnographic research with underserved groups in the American Midwest, including charismatic Pentecostals, clergywomen, victims of domestic violence, and displaced African Americans. She has consistently focused her research on women's speech in these contexts and has developed a new approach to ethnographic research which she calls "reciprocal ethnography," while growing a detailed corpus of work on women's narrative style and expressive speech. Reciprocal ethnography is a feminist and collaborative ethnographic approach that Lawless developed as a challenge to the reflexive turn in anthropological fieldwork and research in the 1970s, which was often male-centric, ignoring the contributions by and study of women's culture. Collected here for the first time are Lawless's key articles on the topics of reciprocal ethnography and women's narrative which influenced not only folklore, but also the allied fields of anthropology, sociology, performance studies, and women's and gender studies. Lawless's methods and research continue to be critically relevant in today's global struggle for gender equality"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Feminist anthropology -- Research -- Middle West Women -- Middle West -- Language Discourse analysis, Narrative -- Middle West Women -- Middle West -- Social conditions Pentecostal women -- Middle West -- Social conditions SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology. Discourse analysis, Narrative Women -- Language Women -- Social conditions Middle West Form Electronic book Author Shuman, Amy, 1951- author of foreword. LC no. 2019980174 ISBN 9780253042989 0253042984 9780253042996 0253042992

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