Racial Identity and the Development of Body Image Issues among African American Adolescent Girls

As readers, children with dyslexia are vulnerable to becoming academically, socially, and emotionally detached from education. Traditional educational practices tend to use quantitative measures to diagnose children to better serve their needs and researchers, who study students with special needs often focus on a deficit model that quantify just how far a child is from the norm. This practice, while full of good intentions, often creates emotional scars and feelings of inferiority in a child. This reductionist view of a disability is most likely different from the lived experience of the person with the disability. To get a complete picture, we must use qualitative methods to reveal children’s words, their interactions, and the entire context within which their disability is nested. In this study, I use qualitative methods to unpack the educational experiences of a group of students with dyslexia. Data were gathered from four sources: interviews with students and teachers, field notes, and journal entries. The words of the participants are presented to convey the emotional impact that a reading disability brings and to remind educators and researchers that quantitative methods do not always provide a complete picture of a child’s experience in school

Handbook of feminist research : theory and praxis

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Announcements and Plenary Address

Sharlene Janice Nagy Hesse-Biber is Professor of Sociology and the Director of Women\u27s Studies & Gender Studies Program at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She has written widely on methodological and methods issues, including the role of technology and emergent methods in social research. She is the editor of the Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research (Oxford University Press, 2011), co-editor of Emergent Methods in Social Research (Sage, 2006) and Handbook of Emergent Methods (Guilford, 2008), author of Mixed Methods Research: Merging Theory with Practice (Guilford, 2010), and co-author of The Practice of Qualitative Research (2nd Edition, Sage Publications, 2010). Professor Hesse-Biber is co-developer of the software program HyperRESEARCH, a computer-assisted program for analyzing qualitative data, and the new transcription tool HyperTRANSCRIBE. In addition to her work on social science methodologies, Dr. Hesse-Biber is an award-winning scholar for her research regarding the impact of sociocultural factors on women\u27s body image, including her book, Am I Thin Enough Yet? The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity (Oxford University Press, 1996), which was selected as one of Choice magazine\u27s best academic books for 1996. She also authored The Cult of Thinness (2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, 2007) and edited Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis (2nd Edition, Sage Publications, 2012) and Feminist Research Practice: A Primer (2nd Edition, Sage Publications, 2012, forthcoming)

Gendered tourism experiences in China: exploring identity, mobility, and resistance online

This paper presents research exploring the narratives Chinese women and men share online regarding gendered tourism experiences. Data were collected from 260 blog postings and resulting discussion threads on Chinese social media travel sites from March to November 2019. Search keywords included ‘gender,’ ‘women,’ ‘identity,’ ‘safety,’ ‘reasons women travel,’ ‘men’s resistance to women’s travel,’ and ‘sexual harassment.’ Through a critical discourse analysis of travel blog postings, we found negative constructions of women who travel embedded in Confucian values of women as humble, invisible to the public eye, and immobile. Concurrently, bloggers expressed joy in discovering one’s self through travel, as well as anger at the ways in which Chinese women travellers are demonized online. Finally, we consider that while travel blog postings in some ways resist negative stereotypes of Chinese women travellers, ultimately Confucian ideals which discourage female expressions of anger and the valuing of women as family caregivers prevail