Jenny Hockey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jenny Hockey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jenny |
| FAMILY NAME | Hockey |
| SIGNATURE | HOCKEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 272 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Jenny Wolmark - 1948- 2022
Reflections on ‘doing’ death: A conversation with Jenny Hockey on her life and work
As a founding member of the Mortality editorial board and a key contributor in the establishment of death studies, Jenny Hockey requires little introduction. This article celebrates Jenny’s extensive contributions and looks at her involvement in the development of the death and dying field. In our interview, Jenny reflects on her personal experiences of doing death research and being a researcher, while demonstrating the ways in which personal ex…
A heterosexual life
This paper presents the life history of one older woman, Jean, and engages with feminist debates about the nature of women s agency within institutionalised heterosexuality. As the data show, Jean grew up within an environment organised according to the principle of heterosexuality, at the levels of family, peer group and the local community. Her account indicates that while Jean inhabited the categories of heterosexuality, she still resisted man…
There's not just trainers or non-trainers, there's like degrees of trainers: Commoditisation, singularisation and identity
Trainers' represent a form of footwear that has attracted academic attention, particularly in relation to the historical development of footwear since the 19th century, addressing various aspects, from the industrial application of rubber to the technologies of shoe manufacture. This article contributes to a literature on the intersection between trainers and the individuals who have 'made' them. However, it asks a parallel question: how do train…
Occasions and non-occasions: Identity, femininity and high-heeled shoes
This article addresses theoretical problems around the notion of ‘choice’, using empirical data from a three-year, ESRC-funded study of identity, transition and footwear among both women and men. With a focus on female participants who wore, or had worn high-heeled shoes, it draws on Budgeon’s argument for viewing the body as event, as becoming, and Finch’s use of the concept of display, to explore the temporalities of high-heeled shoe wear, part…
The Temporal Landscape of Shoes: A Life Course Perspective
This empirically grounded article draws on an ESRC-funded project on footwear, identity and transition to offer new understandings of how a linear model of the life course may, in practice, be disrupted, subverted or reconfigured. Combining the insights of material culture and life course studies, it develops the notion of a temporal landscape of shoes within which their scope for interrupting life course temporalities can be explored. In particu…
Worn Shoes: Identity, Memory and Footwear
This article raises questions about the role of footwear within contemporary processes of identity formation and presents ongoing research into perceptions, experiences and memories of shoes among men and women in the North of England. In a series of linked theoretical discussions it argues that a focus on women, fashion and shoe consumption as a feature of a modern, western 'project of the self' obscures a more revealing line of inquiry where fo…
Cultural blending in Korean death rites. New interpretive approaches
Cultural blending in Korean death rites. New interpretive approaches, by Chang-Won Park, London, Continuum, 2010, 228 pp., US$120 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-4411-1749-6 This book innovatively combines
Landscapes of the dead? Natural burial and the materialization of absence
This article questions the emphasis on presence within material culture studies, using the example of a new burial landscape where the UK's now conventional mortuary culture is often missing. The authors ask how the absences initiated by a death are articulated or materialized when body disposal and memorialization occur outwith a delineated boundary and identifiable buildings, a grave marked with head and kerb stones, and an embalmed body in a h…
I'm a Sex Kitten, Aren't I: Relocating Agency and Pleasure in Older Women's Narratives about Sex
This article draws on data collected as part of a two-year funded study concerning the making of modern heterosexuality in the East Yorkshire region of England. The starting point for our family-based empirical project has been to problematise feminist theorising that has conceptualised heterosexuality as a monolithic and static category in which women (and men) are denied agency. Via participants' nuanced accounts of being and becoming heterosex…
Masculinities, Sexualities, and the Limits of Subversion: Being a Man in Hairdressing
Drawing on data from a U.K. study of ''masculinities in transition,'' this article considers whether hairdressing, a largely feminized working culture, affords men the space to challenge, reaffirm, and play with dominant understanding of what it is to be a man. We ask whether ''another masculinity'' is possible in this sphere and beyond. Using qualitative interviews and observation in the workplace, men's feelings about working in ''a woman's wor…
The Matter of Death
This collection opens up spaces where lives end, bodies are disposed of and memories generated: hospitals, hospices, care homes, coroners' courts, funeral premises, cemeteries, roadsides, the spirit w
Talk, silence and the material world: Patterns of indirect communication among agricultural families in northern England
Beyond the good death. The anthropology of modern dying
Beyond the good death. The anthropology of modern dying, by James W. Green, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008, 258 pp., US$29.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-8122-4042-9 For readers ne
British Sociological Association (BSA) Study Group Symposium
The life course anticipated: Gender and chronologisation among young people
The life course anticipated: gender and chronologisation among young people." Journal of Youth Studies, 12(5), p. 597
The life course anticipated: Gender and chronologisation among young people1
Drawing on qualitative data from young men and their female partners in their twenties, this paper critically reviews debates about young people's perceptions of their futures. It argues that the anticipation of either a 'destructured' or a 'standardised' life course does not simply vary between different categories of young people; rather, it shows young people's experience of tension between these two trajectories. Moreover, in the case of esta…
Fast Girls, Foreigners and GIs: An Exploration of the Discursive Strategies through Which the Status of Pre-Marital (Hetero)sexual Ignorance and Restraint Was Upheld during the Second World War
This paper explores contradictions within qualitative data gathered among women and men whose young adulthood coincided with the Second World War. These data were generated as part of an ESRC-funded project which investigated the making of heterosexual relationships cross-generationally. They suggest the co-existence of both a prevalent taboo or stigma associated with sexual knowledge and practice before and outside marriage, and personal experie…
What's Sex Got to do with it? A Family-Based Investigation of Growing up Heterosexual during the Twentieth Century
This paper explores findings from a cross-generational study of the making of heterosexual relationships in East Yorkshire, which has interviewed women and men within extended families. Using a feminist perspective, it examines the relationship between heterosexuality and adulthood, focussing on sexual attraction, courtship, first kisses, first love and first sex, as mediated within family relationships, and at different historical moments. In th…
Encyclopaedia of cremation
Encyclopaedia of cremation. By DOUGLAS J. DAVIES and LEWIS H. MATES, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2005, 488pp., US$124.95/£65.00, hardback (ISBN 0-7546-3773-5). If writer Alan Bennett asserts that a compend
Representing ‘Sex’ in the Research Process
This article explores the relationship between methodologies used for sex research and the way sex is represented in everyday life. Drawing on a cross‐generational study of heterosexuality, this article asks how the relationship between researcher and participant contributes to the production of knowledge around sexuality and how this then relates to the practices and concepts which constitute ‘sex’. Working amongst women and men aged between 15 …
Occupational Cultures and the Embodiment of Masculinity: Hairdressing, Estate Agency and Firefighting
Drawing on data from an Economic and Social Research Council-funded project, this article explores the implications of different occupational cultures for men's masculine identity. With a focus on embodiment and individual agency, it explores the argument that it is within 'scenes of constraint' that gendered identities are both 'done' and 'undone'. In this article we examine embodied experience in occupational cultures commonly stereotyped as 'm…
La crémation et le devenir des cendres
Dans nos sociétés laïques, de plus en plus de personnes choisissent de se charger de toute une série de décisions concernant les cendres de leurs défunts. Actuellement, au Royaume-Uni où la législation est très permissive, près de 250 000 urnes sont retirées des crématoriums chaque année. À partir d'une enquête menée auprès de particuliers et de professionnels, les auteurs interrogent l'apparition de ces nouveaux processus rituels dans quatre vil…
Closing in on death? Reflections on research and researchers in the field of death and dying
This paper provides a critical overview of recent arguments within the field of research on death and dying. In so doing, it explores reasons for researchers choosing to work in this area, and how these might relate to questions of personal experience and the wider cultural and social contexts of researchers’ everyday lives. It discusses not only the sequestration of death thesis, but also arguments which suggest there has been a revival of Roman…
Of Grief and Well-being: Competing Conceptions of Restorative Ritualization
Informants' accounts of what they did with ashes they had chosen to remove from UK crematoria described disposal and memorialization strategies that have implications for anthropological understanding of issues of well-being, and the generation of new ritual practices. Here we aim to explore informants' conceptions of how well-being might be restored after a bereavement and how these were being put into practice. Data were gathered as part of an …
Occupational Cultures and the Embodiment of Masculinity: Hairdressing, Estate Agency and Firefighting
Drawing on data from an Economic and Social Research Council-funded project, this article explores the implications of different occupational cultures for men's masculine identity. With a focus on embodiment and individual agency, it explores the argument that it is within 'scenes of constraint' that gendered identities are both 'done' and 'undone'. In this article we examine embodied experience in occupational cultures commonly stereotyped as 'm…
Blowing in the wind? Identity, materiality, and the destinations of human ashes
This article asks whether the recent UK-based practice of removing ashes from crematoria has led to entirely new, innovative rituals of disposal, or whether contemporary practice is an appropriation of late nineteenth-century Romantic values and beliefs. Drawing on findings from a major empirical study among both professionals and lay people involved in the removal of ashes, it explores the potentiality of ash remains as a mobile material residue…
After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology
Beyond the Womb and the Tomb: Identity, (Dis)embodiment and the Life Course
Grounded in the authors' theoretical and ethnographic work on pregnancy and social life after death, this article explores the ways in which the body is involved in processes of identification. With a focus on the embodied nature of social identity, the article nonetheless problematizes a model of the life course that begins at the moments of birth and ends at death. Instead, it offers a more extended temporal perspective and examines other ways …
Growing up and growing old: Ageing and Dependency in the Life Course
The life course anticipated: Gender and chronologisation among young people1
Drawing on qualitative data from young men and their female partners in their twenties, this paper critically reviews debates about young people's perceptions of their futures. It argues that the anticipation of either a 'destructured' or a 'standardised' life course does not simply vary between different categories of young people; rather, it shows young people's experience of tension between these two trajectories. Moreover, in the case of esta…
Landscapes of loss: Spaces of memory, times of bereavement
The qualitative study described in this paper explores later life spousal bereavement as a spatialised experience. It draws on interviews with 20 older widowed people who were living alone, half in owner-occupied accommodation and half in sheltered housing. Moving beyond the older adult's ‘inner’ world of grief, it examines changes in the use and meaning of both public and domestic space in order to provide an holistic, culturally-located analysi…
Landscapes of the dead? Natural burial and the materialization of absence
This article questions the emphasis on presence within material culture studies, using the example of a new burial landscape where the UK's now conventional mortuary culture is often missing. The authors ask how the absences initiated by a death are articulated or materialized when body disposal and memorialization occur outwith a delineated boundary and identifiable buildings, a grave marked with head and kerb stones, and an embalmed body in a h…
Resisting the ‘mask’ of old age: The social meaning of lay health beliefs in later life
While the substantial literature on lay health beliefs gives some consideration to older people's conceptions of health and illness, it is material which has yet to be examined from the perspective of postmodern theory. This article, therefore, critically examines the value of using ideas from postmodernism in such a context and focuses on data obtained from a series of in-depth interviews with a sample of fifteen older people. During the intervi…
Exploring Self and Society
This text addresses contemporary society in an immediate and thought-provoking manner and will be a timely and topical introduction to the dynamic and critical dimensions of sociology. It adopts a bro
Good Company: An Anthropological Study of Old People in Groups
Good Company looks at the lives and motivations of the fastest growing social group in the UK - the over 65s. Based on participant observation at clubs, voluntary organizations and amongst individuals, it studies the importance of friendship and social interaction to the well-being of the elderly and looks at the way old people devise strategies for living. It tries to show how clubs are not necessarily the arena of lonely, isolated individuals a…
Women's Reproductive Lives as a Symbolic Resource in Central and Eastern Europe
When Communism collapsed in Central and Eastern Europe women seemed to lose the control they had gained over their reproductive lives. Abortion rights became more limited as did access to childcare and maternity benefits. The authors argue that this picture conceals two key points. First, the effects of both Communism and post-Communism for women's reproductive lives need to be understood as byproducts of state initiatives geared towards the fulf…
There's not just trainers or non-trainers, there's like degrees of trainers: Commoditisation, singularisation and identity
Trainers' represent a form of footwear that has attracted academic attention, particularly in relation to the historical development of footwear since the 19th century, addressing various aspects, from the industrial application of rubber to the technologies of shoe manufacture. This article contributes to a literature on the intersection between trainers and the individuals who have 'made' them. However, it asks a parallel question: how do train…
The Temporal Landscape of Shoes: A Life Course Perspective
This empirically grounded article draws on an ESRC-funded project on footwear, identity and transition to offer new understandings of how a linear model of the life course may, in practice, be disrupted, subverted or reconfigured. Combining the insights of material culture and life course studies, it develops the notion of a temporal landscape of shoes within which their scope for interrupting life course temporalities can be explored. In particu…
Masculinities, Sexualities, and the Limits of Subversion: Being a Man in Hairdressing
Drawing on data from a U.K. study of ''masculinities in transition,'' this article considers whether hairdressing, a largely feminized working culture, affords men the space to challenge, reaffirm, and play with dominant understanding of what it is to be a man. We ask whether ''another masculinity'' is possible in this sphere and beyond. Using qualitative interviews and observation in the workplace, men's feelings about working in ''a woman's wor…
I'm a Sex Kitten, Aren't I: Relocating Agency and Pleasure in Older Women's Narratives about Sex
This article draws on data collected as part of a two-year funded study concerning the making of modern heterosexuality in the East Yorkshire region of England. The starting point for our family-based empirical project has been to problematise feminist theorising that has conceptualised heterosexuality as a monolithic and static category in which women (and men) are denied agency. Via participants' nuanced accounts of being and becoming heterosex…
Exploring Self and Society
Worn Shoes: Identity, Memory and Footwear
This article raises questions about the role of footwear within contemporary processes of identity formation and presents ongoing research into perceptions, experiences and memories of shoes among men and women in the North of England. In a series of linked theoretical discussions it argues that a focus on women, fashion and shoe consumption as a feature of a modern, western 'project of the self' obscures a more revealing line of inquiry where fo…
A heterosexual life: Older women and agency within marriage and the family
This paper presents the life history of one older woman, Jean, and engages with feminist debates about the nature Of women's agency within institutionalised heterosexuality. As the data show, Jean grew up within an environment organised according to the principle of heterosexuality, at the levels of family, peer group and the local community. Her account indicates that while Jean inhabited the categories of heterosexuality, she still resisted man…
You Have Neither Neighbours Nor Privacy: Ambiguities in the Experience of Emotional Well Being of Women in Farming Families
This paper explores findings from an ethnographic study of relations of dependency within agricultural communities in the Northern region. Using a life course perspective it focuses on the cultural strategies which women draw upon to deal with the changing constraints, emotional stresses and loneliness of marrying into a farming family. Accounts from women occupying different generational positions demonstrate how they manage to achieve personal …
The life course anticipated: Gender and chronologisation among young people
The life course anticipated: gender and chronologisation among young people." Journal of Youth Studies, 12(5), p. 597
Representing ‘Sex’ in the Research Process
This article explores the relationship between methodologies used for sex research and the way sex is represented in everyday life. Drawing on a cross‐generational study of heterosexuality, this article asks how the relationship between researcher and participant contributes to the production of knowledge around sexuality and how this then relates to the practices and concepts which constitute ‘sex’. Working amongst women and men aged between 15 …
For Better or Worse: Heterosexuality Reinvented
Based upon a series of focus group discussions carried out in East Yorkshire, this article contributes to debates on both the nature and theorising of heterosexual relationships that have recently been investigated from diverse perspectives. These group discussions represent the launch of the first major empirical study of heterosexuality and ageing that has been undertaken in the UK. In drawing upon preliminary data from these focus groups, our …
Closing in on death? Reflections on research and researchers in the field of death and dying
This paper provides a critical overview of recent arguments within the field of research on death and dying. In so doing, it explores reasons for researchers choosing to work in this area, and how these might relate to questions of personal experience and the wider cultural and social contexts of researchers’ everyday lives. It discusses not only the sequestration of death thesis, but also arguments which suggest there has been a revival of Roman…
Of Grief and Well-being: Competing Conceptions of Restorative Ritualization
Informants' accounts of what they did with ashes they had chosen to remove from UK crematoria described disposal and memorialization strategies that have implications for anthropological understanding of issues of well-being, and the generation of new ritual practices. Here we aim to explore informants' conceptions of how well-being might be restored after a bereavement and how these were being put into practice. Data were gathered as part of an …
Ideologies of Caring: Rethinking Community and Collectivism
Making the Most of a Funeral
The Acceptable Face of Human Grieving? The Clergy's Role in Managing Emotional Expression during Funerals
Growing up and growing old: Ageing and Dependency in the Life Course
Good Company: An Anthropological Study of Old People in Groups
Good Company looks at the lives and motivations of the fastest growing social group in the UK - the over 65s. Based on participant observation at clubs, voluntary organizations and amongst individuals, it studies the importance of friendship and social interaction to the well-being of the elderly and looks at the way old people devise strategies for living. It tries to show how clubs are not necessarily the arena of lonely, isolated individuals a…
Encountering the 'reality of death' through professional discourses: The matter of materiality
This paper raises questions about how the relationship between competing discourses associated with contemporary Western death ritual might be understood. It argues that both traditional and more contemporary perspectives are often evident in the ways in which death and dying are currently being managed. By drawing on theoretical approaches recently developed within anthropological monographs, it suggests that aspects of death ritual such as 'fun…
Depending on the Field: The Natural History of a Research Project
You Have Neither Neighbours Nor Privacy: Ambiguities in the Experience of Emotional Well Being of Women in Farming Families
This paper explores findings from an ethnographic study of relations of dependency within agricultural communities in the Northern region. Using a life course perspective it focuses on the cultural strategies which women draw upon to deal with the changing constraints, emotional stresses and loneliness of marrying into a farming family. Accounts from women occupying different generational positions demonstrate how they manage to achieve personal …
Resisting the ‘mask’ of old age: The social meaning of lay health beliefs in later life
While the substantial literature on lay health beliefs gives some consideration to older people's conceptions of health and illness, it is material which has yet to be examined from the perspective of postmodern theory. This article, therefore, critically examines the value of using ideas from postmodernism in such a context and focuses on data obtained from a series of in-depth interviews with a sample of fifteen older people. During the intervi…
Exploring Self and Society
This text addresses contemporary society in an immediate and thought-provoking manner and will be a timely and topical introduction to the dynamic and critical dimensions of sociology. It adopts a bro
After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology
Ideal Homes: Social change and domestic life
Ideal Homes? shows how both popular images and experiences of home life relate to the ability of society's members to produce and respond to social change. The book provides for the first time an analysis of the space of the home and the experiences of home life by writers from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, architecture, geography and anthropology. It covers a range of subjects, including gender roles, different generations re…
Death, Gender and Ethnicity
Finding the Child in the Woman: The post-mortem infantilisation of Diana
This paper examines the processes of infantilisation which characterise the representations of Diana, Princess of Wales, in both her life and death. It argues that the image of 'the child' provided this vehicle through its ability to portray the transgressive and marginal role which she adopted as a royal princess. However, as the paper demonstrates, the empowering potentialities of this had costs. It implicitly reproduced the gendered inequaliti…
Exploring Self and Society
Women's Reproductive Lives as a Symbolic Resource in Central and Eastern Europe
When Communism collapsed in Central and Eastern Europe women seemed to lose the control they had gained over their reproductive lives. Abortion rights became more limited as did access to childcare and maternity benefits. The authors argue that this picture conceals two key points. First, the effects of both Communism and post-Communism for women's reproductive lives need to be understood as byproducts of state initiatives geared towards the fulf…
Landscapes of loss: Spaces of memory, times of bereavement
The qualitative study described in this paper explores later life spousal bereavement as a spatialised experience. It draws on interviews with 20 older widowed people who were living alone, half in owner-occupied accommodation and half in sheltered housing. Moving beyond the older adult's ‘inner’ world of grief, it examines changes in the use and meaning of both public and domestic space in order to provide an holistic, culturally-located analysi…
The importance of being intuitive: Arnold Van Gennep's The Rites of Passage
(2002). The importance of being intuitive: Arnold Van Gennep's The Rites of Passage. Mortality: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 210-217
For Better or Worse: Heterosexuality Reinvented
Based upon a series of focus group discussions carried out in East Yorkshire, this article contributes to debates on both the nature and theorising of heterosexual relationships that have recently been investigated from diverse perspectives. These group discussions represent the launch of the first major empirical study of heterosexuality and ageing that has been undertaken in the UK. In drawing upon preliminary data from these focus groups, our …
After Writing Culture
Time, Memory and the Life Course
This book has explored a core tension: the tension between the individual's capacity to make and re-make themselves, to resist the penalties, constraints and imperatives of 'social structure' and the ageing body, and their dependence upon 'the social' as the source of who they experience themselves to be. It is through this tension, we argue, that we come to know that we are ageing. As we explored in earlier chapters, work on rites of passage, by…
Social Identities across the Life Course
This text brings together sociological, anthropological and social policy perspectives on the life course with a view to developing the conceptual rigour of the term as well as to exploring the rich r
Social identities across the life course
Divided into three parts, the first two parts of the book offer a critical appraisal of traditional and postmodern theoretical approaches to the life course, arguing for a more synthetic approach which takes fuller account of recent academic work on the body. The final part then explores the usefulness of this approach in the substantive areas of sex, gender, family, kinship, work and consumption, thus addressing our experience of changing age-ba…
‘What I Used to Do … On My Mother's Settee’: Spatial and emotional aspects of heterosexuality in England
Using data from an ongoing project which investigates continuities and changes in the institution of heterosexuality across the twentieth century, this article brings a spatialised perspective to bear on the contradictions implicit within family‐based models of hegemonic heterosexuality. In this context we contribute to the growing focus by geographers on theorising the spatial and emotional aspects of heterosexuality. Via interviews with women a…
A heterosexual life: Older women and agency within marriage and the family
This paper presents the life history of one older woman, Jean, and engages with feminist debates about the nature Of women's agency within institutionalised heterosexuality. As the data show, Jean grew up within an environment organised according to the principle of heterosexuality, at the levels of family, peer group and the local community. Her account indicates that while Jean inhabited the categories of heterosexuality, she still resisted man…
Sociology (40 works) · Psychology (23 works) · Gender Studies (20 works) · Political science (18 works) · Art (15 works) · Epistemology (15 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (14 works) · Aesthetics (13 works) · History (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works)