Changing Idioms of Shame

Expressions of Disgrace and Dishonour in the Narratives of Turkish Women Living in Denmark

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2389809
AutoresGretty M Mirdal (University of Copenhagen), Gretty Mirdal (0000-0002-8309-8685, University of Copenhagen, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen12
Número4
Páginas395-414
Fecha de publicación2006-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCulture & Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1354-067X • E-ISSN: 1461-7056
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1354067x06067142
OpenAlexW2128733301
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas12

The present article is based on interviews conducted in 1980-1 with 75 Turkish women in Denmark, and re-interviews of the same women by the same interviewers in 2000-1. The aim of the original interviews was to collect the women's accounts of their immigration, and to study their subjective evaluation of their physical, psychological and social situation at the time. Twenty years later, 85 percent of the sample could be located and 61 percent were re-interviewed. In the meantime, these women had lived and worked in Denmark, been in contact with the Danish health, educational and social systems, and their living conditions had improved considerably. There were several noteworthy changes in both objective and subjective dimensions between the two interviews, not least in the conception of shame. The analysis of the original and follow-up narratives is conducted here with a special emphasis on the relation between shame, gender roles and emancipation

Danish · Developmental psychology · Immigration · Narrative · Shame · Sociology · Turkish · Emotional Labor in Professions · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · History · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics