Joanna Gregson
Biographic Data
| ID | 223563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanna Gregson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Gregson |
| SIGNATURE | GREGSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pacific Lutheran University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Aspirational Emotion Work
Drawing on a seven-year ethnography, we illuminate how unpublished romance writers employed emotional capital to negotiate the competitive publishing industry. To legitimate themselves as "real" writers, aspirants constructed occupational calling narratives, which they then drew upon to manage their emotions when publication was elusive. We call this process "aspirational emotion work" to illustrate how writers made use of their emotional capital…
Sneers and Leers
Drawing on four years of ethnographic research with romance novel writers, we show how their affiliation with romance-a literary genre known for stories containing sexual content-prompted outsiders to sexually stigmatize them. Our work examines both the application and management of this stigma. We describe how outsiders applied the stigma in two ways: by conveying blatant disapproval through 'sneering' and inviting writers to display a highly se…
Narratives of Keepers and Changers
This research explores the narratives women provide for their postdivorce surname decisions. Data are drawn from in-depth interviews with 29 divorced women. Respondents were categorized as keepers (women who kept their married names after divorce) and changers (women who changed their names after divorce). Keepers' narratives referenced a desire to minimize disruption, such as keeping the name for their children's sake or resisting the bureaucrat…
Finding “Me” Again
The purpose of this study was to explore women's identity shifts as they navigate their postdivorce lives. We conducted in-depth, loosely structured interviews with 31 women who had been through at least 1 divorce. Interviews included questions about how women experienced life after divorce, specifically addressing changes they made to separate from the marriage and form a postdivorce identity. Patterns emerged regarding the process of identity c…
Aspirational Emotion Work
Drawing on a seven-year ethnography, we illuminate how unpublished romance writers employed emotional capital to negotiate the competitive publishing industry. To legitimate themselves as "real" writers, aspirants constructed occupational calling narratives, which they then drew upon to manage their emotions when publication was elusive. We call this process "aspirational emotion work" to illustrate how writers made use of their emotional capital…
Sneers and Leers
Drawing on four years of ethnographic research with romance novel writers, we show how their affiliation with romance-a literary genre known for stories containing sexual content-prompted outsiders to sexually stigmatize them. Our work examines both the application and management of this stigma. We describe how outsiders applied the stigma in two ways: by conveying blatant disapproval through 'sneering' and inviting writers to display a highly se…
Finding “Me” Again
The purpose of this study was to explore women's identity shifts as they navigate their postdivorce lives. We conducted in-depth, loosely structured interviews with 31 women who had been through at least 1 divorce. Interviews included questions about how women experienced life after divorce, specifically addressing changes they made to separate from the marriage and form a postdivorce identity. Patterns emerged regarding the process of identity c…
Narratives of Keepers and Changers
This research explores the narratives women provide for their postdivorce surname decisions. Data are drawn from in-depth interviews with 29 divorced women. Respondents were categorized as keepers (women who kept their married names after divorce) and changers (women who changed their names after divorce). Keepers' narratives referenced a desire to minimize disruption, such as keeping the name for their children's sake or resisting the bureaucrat…
Sneers and Leers
Drawing on four years of ethnographic research with romance novel writers, we show how their affiliation with romance-a literary genre known for stories containing sexual content-prompted outsiders to sexually stigmatize them. Our work examines both the application and management of this stigma. We describe how outsiders applied the stigma in two ways: by conveying blatant disapproval through 'sneering' and inviting writers to display a highly se…
Aspirational Emotion Work
Drawing on a seven-year ethnography, we illuminate how unpublished romance writers employed emotional capital to negotiate the competitive publishing industry. To legitimate themselves as "real" writers, aspirants constructed occupational calling narratives, which they then drew upon to manage their emotions when publication was elusive. We call this process "aspirational emotion work" to illustrate how writers made use of their emotional capital…
Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works)