Janet Fink
Biographic Data
| ID | 219710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Fink |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Fink |
| SIGNATURE | FINK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3584-3238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 199 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Teetering on the Edge: Portraits of innocence, risk and young female sexualities in 1950s' and 1960s' British cinema
This article explores how British social problem films in the late 1950s and early 1960s represented social anxieties around the sexuality of girls in their mid to late teens. Its analytic focus is upon the risks posed by modern social life to the teenage girl's sexual innocence and it argues that attending to this hitherto often-neglected sexual state brings new insights to cultural histories of young female sexualities. Discussion draws upon Be…
Sharing Images, Spoiling Meanings? Class, Gender, and Ethics in Visual Research with Girls
In our article we consider the ethical challenges engendered by participatory visual research with girls. Drawing on photographs taken by and of girls we explore how to reconcile the challenges generated by disseminating images of girls while supporting them to have a voice in research. Our concerns are focused on how to maintain the integrity of girls’ visual voices while protecting them from any harm that may result from revealing visual inform…
Blood, Contract and Intimacy: History and Practice with Leonore Davidoff
Telling Moments and Everyday Experience: Multiple Methods Research on Couple Relationships and Personal Lives
Everyday moments and ordinary gestures create the texture of long-term couple relationships. In this article we demonstrate how, by refining our research tools and conceptual imagination, we can better understand these vibrant and visceral relationships. The 'moments approach' that we propose provides a lens through which to focus in on couples' everyday experiences, to gain insight on processes, meanings and cross-cutting analytical themes whils…
Configuring generations: Cross-disciplinary perspectives
Approaches to conceptualising ‘generation’, the meanings invested in the idea and the ways in which these feature in the shaping of identities, relationships and practices, have long been the focus of policy making and academic research. From such work, theorising generation can be understood as clustered around three areas: kinship generations, socio-historical generations and collective generations (Burnett, 2010; Plummer, 2010). These clusters…
Exploring Elite Female Athletes’ Interpretations of Sport Media Images: A Window Into the Construction of Social Identity and “Selling Sex” in Women’s Sports
Scholars have produced a body of evidence demonstrating media portrayals of sportswomen emphasize femininity/heterosexuality versus athletic competence and argue that such coverage trivializes women’s sports. Little research attention has been given to how these portrayals are interpreted by various audiences, including female athletes. This study explores how elite female athletes respond to the ways they are represented within sport media. We e…
Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth-Century England PAT THANE & Tanya Evans
Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? provides a carefully woven account of unmarried motherhood through the twentieth century in which histories of the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and Her Chi
Questions of innocence and guilt: Child abduction and the representation of mothers in post-war British cinema
The figure of the missing child is a recurrent and highly visible feature of past and present culture, not only the concern of extensive reporting in the media but also a frequent motif in the cinema, theatre, popular fiction and autobiographical memoirs. This article is focused on the ways in which British feature films of the 1950s and 1960s portrayed the experiences of losing a child through kidnap or abduction, exploring in particular how mot…
Inequalities, images and insights for policy and research
Drawing upon a growing interest in the impact of visual culture and the use of visual data within the health and social sciences, the introduction to this interdisciplinary collection of papers examines what visual methodologies and visual ‘evidence’ can bring to the study of social inequalities. It sets out the specific contributions by authors in order to identify their different methodological approaches, theoretical interests and analytical c…
Walking the neighbourhood, seeing the small details of community life: Reflections from a photography walking tour
This paper examines the value of photography walking tours for exploring meanings and experiences of community. The work is part of a larger visual research project which sought to examine the everyday lives of residents in a neighbourhood identified as ‘disadvantaged’, with the tour being organized as an opportunity for residents to identify what they valued about their local environment and what they considered to be problematic. The dynamics i…
The politics of performance: Methodological challenges of researching children’s experiences of childhood through the lens of participatory video
This paper examines the value of participatory video (PV) for exploring childhood and children’s experiences within the context of a larger research project which sought to examine the everyday lives of residents in a neighbourhood identified as ‘disadvantaged’. Participatory methods are often premised on ameliorating the gap between the concepts and models of researchers and those of individuals and communities. However, within PV, there has bee…
Feminism and Voluntary Action: Eglantyne Jebb and Save the Children, 1876-1928 Linda Mahood
Feminism and Voluntary Action: Eglantyne Jebb and Save the Children, 1876–1928 LINDA MAHOOD Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 Pp. xii + 291. £55.00. ISBN 978 0 230 525603 Linda Mahood's biograp
For Better or for Worse? The Dilemmas of Unmarried Motherhood in Mid-Twentieth-Century Popular British Film and Fiction
This article investigates representations of unmarried motherhood in the late 1940s and early 1950s through readings of popular British film and fiction. These sources are used to illustrate contradictions and conflicts in the meanings afforded to unmarried motherhood and, in turn, to highlight how the unmarried mother was used as a motif for exploring post-war normative boundaries around marriage, motherhood, and female sexuality. The article dr…
Interpreting Images of Motherhood: The Contexts and Dynamics of Collective Viewing
Our research is concerned with cultural representations of birth and mothering and, as part of this, we are engaged with debates concerning competing theoretical and methodological approaches to the analysis of visual images. In particular we are interested in how meanings of an image are reflexively produced, managed and negotiated. That is, whether and to what extent interpretation is influenced by personal experience, emotion and memory; the w…
Think Athletic Director, Think Masculine?”: Examination of the Gender Typing of Managerial Subroles Within Athletic Administration Positions
Inside a hall of mirrors: Residential care and the shifting constructions of childhood in mid‐twentieth‐century Britain
Drawing on imagery from promotional literature produced between 1930 and 1960 by the National Children’s Home, a British child welfare charity, this article focuses upon constructions of childhood and child development in the context of residential care for children. It suggests that photographs and their related captions are rich sources through which to explore the significance of time and space for constructions of childhood and to consider th…
Choosing an Endorser for a Women’s Sporting Event: The Interaction of Attractiveness and Expertise
The Effect of Sport Commentator Framing on Viewer Attitudes
Gender and Sex Diversity in Sport Organizations: Concluding Comments
Children of Empire: The Alignments of Church, State and Family in the Creation of Mobile Children
This article takes as its starting point the phenomenon of child migration to Britain's White Dominions in the 1940s and 1950s to explore the ways in which the social was being governed in the immediate post-war years. Through this contested form of child welfare, it illustrates the deeply rooted, symbolic meanings and values attached to empire and religion and the role that these played in mediating the power and control of the state over its ci…
Sport Spectator Consumption Behavior
Competition for the sport consumer dollar has increased tremendously in recent years. A better understanding of why sport spectators and fans consume media and merchandise would benefit sport marketers and managers greatly. To date, no empirically tested model has proposed explanatory and predictive relationships among fan/spectator motives and behavior variables. In addition, no psycho-metrically sound scales exist to measure these cognitive, af…
An Imperceptible Difference: Visual and Textual Constructions of Femininity in Sports Illustrated and Sports Illustrated for Women
The success of female athletes in the 1996 Olympics brought with it a great deal of optimism that women in sport would finally receive acceptance for their athletic talents. This optimism was concomitantly fueled by the rise of women’s sport magazines. This study was designed with two purposes. First, through an analysis of both visual and literal texts, we sought to replicate previous research in determining whether there had been any changes in…
Rethinking European Welfare
Sex, gender and social change in Britain since 1880
Historians and Social-Science Research Data: The Peter Townsend Collection
This article examines the potential which archived collections of qualitative social science research data, such as the Peter Townsend Collection, hold for historians of post-war Britain. It focuses upon the early career of Peter Townsend to explore how empirical sociologists in the 1950s drew heavily upon anthropological approaches in their collection of data. Three data sets from the Townsend Collection – ‘The Family Life of Old People’, ‘Katha…
Exploring Elite Female Athletes’ Interpretations of Sport Media Images: A Window Into the Construction of Social Identity and “Selling Sex” in Women’s Sports
Scholars have produced a body of evidence demonstrating media portrayals of sportswomen emphasize femininity/heterosexuality versus athletic competence and argue that such coverage trivializes women’s sports. Little research attention has been given to how these portrayals are interpreted by various audiences, including female athletes. This study explores how elite female athletes respond to the ways they are represented within sport media. We e…
An Imperceptible Difference: Visual and Textual Constructions of Femininity in Sports Illustrated and Sports Illustrated for Women
The success of female athletes in the 1996 Olympics brought with it a great deal of optimism that women in sport would finally receive acceptance for their athletic talents. This optimism was concomitantly fueled by the rise of women’s sport magazines. This study was designed with two purposes. First, through an analysis of both visual and literal texts, we sought to replicate previous research in determining whether there had been any changes in…
The politics of performance: Methodological challenges of researching children’s experiences of childhood through the lens of participatory video
This paper examines the value of participatory video (PV) for exploring childhood and children’s experiences within the context of a larger research project which sought to examine the everyday lives of residents in a neighbourhood identified as ‘disadvantaged’. Participatory methods are often premised on ameliorating the gap between the concepts and models of researchers and those of individuals and communities. However, within PV, there has bee…
Gender and Sex Diversity in Sport Organizations: Concluding Comments
Telling Moments and Everyday Experience: Multiple Methods Research on Couple Relationships and Personal Lives
Everyday moments and ordinary gestures create the texture of long-term couple relationships. In this article we demonstrate how, by refining our research tools and conceptual imagination, we can better understand these vibrant and visceral relationships. The 'moments approach' that we propose provides a lens through which to focus in on couples' everyday experiences, to gain insight on processes, meanings and cross-cutting analytical themes whils…
Walking the neighbourhood, seeing the small details of community life: Reflections from a photography walking tour
This paper examines the value of photography walking tours for exploring meanings and experiences of community. The work is part of a larger visual research project which sought to examine the everyday lives of residents in a neighbourhood identified as ‘disadvantaged’, with the tour being organized as an opportunity for residents to identify what they valued about their local environment and what they considered to be problematic. The dynamics i…
Think Athletic Director, Think Masculine?”: Examination of the Gender Typing of Managerial Subroles Within Athletic Administration Positions
Choosing an Endorser for a Women’s Sporting Event: The Interaction of Attractiveness and Expertise
Pictures from the Margins of Marriage: Representations of Spinsters and Single Mothers in the mid‐Victorian Novel, Inter‐war Hollywood Melodrama and British Film of the 1950s and 1960s
Inside a hall of mirrors: Residential care and the shifting constructions of childhood in mid‐twentieth‐century Britain
Drawing on imagery from promotional literature produced between 1930 and 1960 by the National Children’s Home, a British child welfare charity, this article focuses upon constructions of childhood and child development in the context of residential care for children. It suggests that photographs and their related captions are rich sources through which to explore the significance of time and space for constructions of childhood and to consider th…
The Effect of Sport Commentator Framing on Viewer Attitudes
Rethinking European Welfare
Sharing Images, Spoiling Meanings? Class, Gender, and Ethics in Visual Research with Girls
In our article we consider the ethical challenges engendered by participatory visual research with girls. Drawing on photographs taken by and of girls we explore how to reconcile the challenges generated by disseminating images of girls while supporting them to have a voice in research. Our concerns are focused on how to maintain the integrity of girls’ visual voices while protecting them from any harm that may result from revealing visual inform…
Inequalities, images and insights for policy and research
Drawing upon a growing interest in the impact of visual culture and the use of visual data within the health and social sciences, the introduction to this interdisciplinary collection of papers examines what visual methodologies and visual ‘evidence’ can bring to the study of social inequalities. It sets out the specific contributions by authors in order to identify their different methodological approaches, theoretical interests and analytical c…
Interpreting Images of Motherhood: The Contexts and Dynamics of Collective Viewing
Our research is concerned with cultural representations of birth and mothering and, as part of this, we are engaged with debates concerning competing theoretical and methodological approaches to the analysis of visual images. In particular we are interested in how meanings of an image are reflexively produced, managed and negotiated. That is, whether and to what extent interpretation is influenced by personal experience, emotion and memory; the w…
For Better or for Worse? The Dilemmas of Unmarried Motherhood in Mid-Twentieth-Century Popular British Film and Fiction
This article investigates representations of unmarried motherhood in the late 1940s and early 1950s through readings of popular British film and fiction. These sources are used to illustrate contradictions and conflicts in the meanings afforded to unmarried motherhood and, in turn, to highlight how the unmarried mother was used as a motif for exploring post-war normative boundaries around marriage, motherhood, and female sexuality. The article dr…
Historians and Social-Science Research Data: The Peter Townsend Collection
This article examines the potential which archived collections of qualitative social science research data, such as the Peter Townsend Collection, hold for historians of post-war Britain. It focuses upon the early career of Peter Townsend to explore how empirical sociologists in the 1950s drew heavily upon anthropological approaches in their collection of data. Three data sets from the Townsend Collection – ‘The Family Life of Old People’, ‘Katha…
Natural Mothers, Putative Fathers, and Innocent Children: The Definition and Regulation of Parental Relationships Outside Marriage, in England, 1945-1959
This article investigates how, during the 1950s, English legislative reform relating to the issues of affiliation, adoption, and legitimacy was influential in redefining the rights and responsibilities of parental relationships that lay outside and across the boundaries of marriage. The problems and debates that arose from the implementation of these reforms are used to illustrate the centrality that the ideals of monogamous marriage and the nucl…
Pictures from the Margins of Marriage: Representations of Spinsters and Single Mothers in the mid‐Victorian Novel, Inter‐war Hollywood Melodrama and British Film of the 1950s and 1960s
Natural Mothers, Putative Fathers, and Innocent Children: The Definition and Regulation of Parental Relationships Outside Marriage, in England, 1945-1959
This article investigates how, during the 1950s, English legislative reform relating to the issues of affiliation, adoption, and legitimacy was influential in redefining the rights and responsibilities of parental relationships that lay outside and across the boundaries of marriage. The problems and debates that arose from the implementation of these reforms are used to illustrate the centrality that the ideals of monogamous marriage and the nucl…
Measuring immorality: Social Inquiry and the Problem of Illegitimacy
Historians and Social-Science Research Data: The Peter Townsend Collection
This article examines the potential which archived collections of qualitative social science research data, such as the Peter Townsend Collection, hold for historians of post-war Britain. It focuses upon the early career of Peter Townsend to explore how empirical sociologists in the 1950s drew heavily upon anthropological approaches in their collection of data. Three data sets from the Townsend Collection – ‘The Family Life of Old People’, ‘Katha…
An Imperceptible Difference: Visual and Textual Constructions of Femininity in Sports Illustrated and Sports Illustrated for Women
The success of female athletes in the 1996 Olympics brought with it a great deal of optimism that women in sport would finally receive acceptance for their athletic talents. This optimism was concomitantly fueled by the rise of women’s sport magazines. This study was designed with two purposes. First, through an analysis of both visual and literal texts, we sought to replicate previous research in determining whether there had been any changes in…
Rethinking European Welfare
Sex, gender and social change in Britain since 1880
Sport Spectator Consumption Behavior
Competition for the sport consumer dollar has increased tremendously in recent years. A better understanding of why sport spectators and fans consume media and merchandise would benefit sport marketers and managers greatly. To date, no empirically tested model has proposed explanatory and predictive relationships among fan/spectator motives and behavior variables. In addition, no psycho-metrically sound scales exist to measure these cognitive, af…
Choosing an Endorser for a Women’s Sporting Event: The Interaction of Attractiveness and Expertise
The Effect of Sport Commentator Framing on Viewer Attitudes
Gender and Sex Diversity in Sport Organizations: Concluding Comments
Children of Empire: The Alignments of Church, State and Family in the Creation of Mobile Children
This article takes as its starting point the phenomenon of child migration to Britain's White Dominions in the 1940s and 1950s to explore the ways in which the social was being governed in the immediate post-war years. Through this contested form of child welfare, it illustrates the deeply rooted, symbolic meanings and values attached to empire and religion and the role that these played in mediating the power and control of the state over its ci…
Inside a hall of mirrors: Residential care and the shifting constructions of childhood in mid‐twentieth‐century Britain
Drawing on imagery from promotional literature produced between 1930 and 1960 by the National Children’s Home, a British child welfare charity, this article focuses upon constructions of childhood and child development in the context of residential care for children. It suggests that photographs and their related captions are rich sources through which to explore the significance of time and space for constructions of childhood and to consider th…
Think Athletic Director, Think Masculine?”: Examination of the Gender Typing of Managerial Subroles Within Athletic Administration Positions
Interpreting Images of Motherhood: The Contexts and Dynamics of Collective Viewing
Our research is concerned with cultural representations of birth and mothering and, as part of this, we are engaged with debates concerning competing theoretical and methodological approaches to the analysis of visual images. In particular we are interested in how meanings of an image are reflexively produced, managed and negotiated. That is, whether and to what extent interpretation is influenced by personal experience, emotion and memory; the w…
The politics of performance: Methodological challenges of researching children’s experiences of childhood through the lens of participatory video
This paper examines the value of participatory video (PV) for exploring childhood and children’s experiences within the context of a larger research project which sought to examine the everyday lives of residents in a neighbourhood identified as ‘disadvantaged’. Participatory methods are often premised on ameliorating the gap between the concepts and models of researchers and those of individuals and communities. However, within PV, there has bee…
Feminism and Voluntary Action: Eglantyne Jebb and Save the Children, 1876-1928 Linda Mahood
Feminism and Voluntary Action: Eglantyne Jebb and Save the Children, 1876–1928 LINDA MAHOOD Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 Pp. xii + 291. £55.00. ISBN 978 0 230 525603 Linda Mahood's biograp
For Better or for Worse? The Dilemmas of Unmarried Motherhood in Mid-Twentieth-Century Popular British Film and Fiction
This article investigates representations of unmarried motherhood in the late 1940s and early 1950s through readings of popular British film and fiction. These sources are used to illustrate contradictions and conflicts in the meanings afforded to unmarried motherhood and, in turn, to highlight how the unmarried mother was used as a motif for exploring post-war normative boundaries around marriage, motherhood, and female sexuality. The article dr…
Questions of innocence and guilt: Child abduction and the representation of mothers in post-war British cinema
The figure of the missing child is a recurrent and highly visible feature of past and present culture, not only the concern of extensive reporting in the media but also a frequent motif in the cinema, theatre, popular fiction and autobiographical memoirs. This article is focused on the ways in which British feature films of the 1950s and 1960s portrayed the experiences of losing a child through kidnap or abduction, exploring in particular how mot…
Inequalities, images and insights for policy and research
Drawing upon a growing interest in the impact of visual culture and the use of visual data within the health and social sciences, the introduction to this interdisciplinary collection of papers examines what visual methodologies and visual ‘evidence’ can bring to the study of social inequalities. It sets out the specific contributions by authors in order to identify their different methodological approaches, theoretical interests and analytical c…
Walking the neighbourhood, seeing the small details of community life: Reflections from a photography walking tour
This paper examines the value of photography walking tours for exploring meanings and experiences of community. The work is part of a larger visual research project which sought to examine the everyday lives of residents in a neighbourhood identified as ‘disadvantaged’, with the tour being organized as an opportunity for residents to identify what they valued about their local environment and what they considered to be problematic. The dynamics i…
Exploring Elite Female Athletes’ Interpretations of Sport Media Images: A Window Into the Construction of Social Identity and “Selling Sex” in Women’s Sports
Scholars have produced a body of evidence demonstrating media portrayals of sportswomen emphasize femininity/heterosexuality versus athletic competence and argue that such coverage trivializes women’s sports. Little research attention has been given to how these portrayals are interpreted by various audiences, including female athletes. This study explores how elite female athletes respond to the ways they are represented within sport media. We e…
Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth-Century England PAT THANE & Tanya Evans
Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? provides a carefully woven account of unmarried motherhood through the twentieth century in which histories of the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and Her Chi
Configuring generations: Cross-disciplinary perspectives
Approaches to conceptualising ‘generation’, the meanings invested in the idea and the ways in which these feature in the shaping of identities, relationships and practices, have long been the focus of policy making and academic research. From such work, theorising generation can be understood as clustered around three areas: kinship generations, socio-historical generations and collective generations (Burnett, 2010; Plummer, 2010). These clusters…
Telling Moments and Everyday Experience: Multiple Methods Research on Couple Relationships and Personal Lives
Everyday moments and ordinary gestures create the texture of long-term couple relationships. In this article we demonstrate how, by refining our research tools and conceptual imagination, we can better understand these vibrant and visceral relationships. The 'moments approach' that we propose provides a lens through which to focus in on couples' everyday experiences, to gain insight on processes, meanings and cross-cutting analytical themes whils…
Sociology (25 works) · Political science (17 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Art (8 works) · History (8 works)