Melissa Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3615424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7423-9538 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Caring for the Caring Professionals Within a Cancer Hospital
Providing quality care to people approaching the end of their life within the hospital system is important. To date, only limited research has investigated the impact that providing care to people who are dying has on the diverse range of hospital staff who provide the care. As part of a needs assessment to identify the resources and service development required to support all hospital staff, Calvary Mater Newcastle Social Work Department invited…
Southern Women in the Progressive Era
Self-Made Maids
The victorian discourse of self-help , popularized by Samuel Smiles in the mid-nineteenth century, was integral to the success of mid-Victorian British emigration and colonialism. As Robert Hogg notes in his study of British colonial violence in British Columbia and Queensland, Samuel Smiles's notion of character, which embraced the virtues of hard work, perseverance, self-reliance, and energetic action, helped sanction masculine colonial violenc…
Yarning” as a Method for Community-Based Health Research With Indigenous Women
This project explores yarning as a methodology for understanding health and wellness from an indigenous woman's perspective. Previous research exploring indigenous Australian women's perspectives have used traditional Western methodologies and have often been felt by the women themselves to be inappropriate and ineffective in gathering information and promoting discussion. This research arose from the indigenous women themselves, and resulted in …
The Battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens
The American South is so identified with the Civil War that people often forget that the key battles from the final years of the American Revolution were fought in Southern states. The Southern backcountry was the center of the fight for independence, but backcountry devotion to the Patriot cause was slow in coming. Decades of animosity between coastal elites and backcountry settlers who did not enjoy accurate representation in the assemblies mea…
Perspectives on a Decolonizing Approach to Research About Indigenous Women's Health
This paper explores a decolonizing approach to research about Indigenous women's health in Australia. The paper identifies the strengths of decolonizing methodologies as a way to prioritize Indigenous values and worldviews, develop partnerships between researchers and the researched, and contribute to positive change. The authors draw on Laenui's (2000) five-step model of decolonization to describe their work in the Indigenous Women's Wellness Pr…
Contemporary Agrarianism
Agrarian ideology—the celebration of farming and rural life for the benefit it brings to individuals and the nation—has become part of a widespread national discourse about what we eat and how we live. This essay examines major tenets of new agrarian thinking and offers a critique of many of the assumptions that underlie the new agrarian movement. The author argues that incremental changes in consumer behavior can only achieve incremental improve…
Setting a New Agenda
The Australian National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Health Strategy was developed to reflect the health priorities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, as identified by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women themselves. This article describes the process used by the Australian Women’s Health Network to develop the strategy. The women involved in the research used the talking circle method and engaged with Aborigi…
Agricultural History Roundtable Complicating the Story
Five historians who have used oral history to study the rural South assess the ways that oral history methodology and content have complicated our understanding of the region’s agricultural past. They explore two major themes: first, the ways that the information gathered in oral history interviews revealed the diversity and complexity of the rural South and second, how the dialectical process of the interview—the give and take between interviewe…
Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America by Francesca Morgan
Southern Farmers and Their Stories
Examining oral history narratives of more than five hundred farmers from all the southern states, Melissa Walker explores how farmers recall their agrarian past and the lessons that they draw from that past. These farmers understood that their way of life was passing - indeed, many of them would be pushed off the land forever - and they told stories to preserve a sense that their way of life mattered. Landowners and sharecroppers, native-born far…
Harder than Hardscrabble
Problems of Plenty
A Kind of Fate
All We Knew Was to Farm
Consumers in the Country
Journal Article Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America. By Ronald R. Kline. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xii, 372 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-6248-5.) Get access Melissa Walker Melissa Walker Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages 696–697, https://d…
All We Knew Was to Farm
Rural Life in the Upcountry South: Scene in 1920 2. Making Do and Doing Farm Women Cope with the Economic Crisis, 1920-1941 3. Grandma Would Find Some Way to Make Some Money: Farm Women's Cash Incomes 4. Mixed Messages: Home Extension Work among Upcountry Farm Women in the 1920s and 1930s 5. Government Relocation and Upcountry Women 6. Rural Women and Industrialization 7. Farm Wives and Commercial Farming 8. The Land of Do Without: Changing Face …
Culling the Men Out from the Boys
Historians examining twentieth-century transformations of the Southern countryside have shown us how larger structural forces such as world commodities markets, farm mechanization, and government agricultural policy changed the lives of rural Southerners. They have used oral histories to demonstrate how race, class, and gender have shaped rural peoples' responses to those structural forces. Individual responses were highly personal. Southern farm…
Southern Folk Medicine, 1750–1820
Book Review| October 01 2000 Southern Folk Medicine, 1750–1820 Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820. Kay K. Moss. Melissa Walker Melissa Walker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2000) 74 (4): 837–838. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.4.837 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Melissa Walker; Southern Folk Medicine, 1750–1820. Agricultural History 1 January 2000; 74…
Narrative Themes in Oral Histories of Farming Folk
Research Article| April 01 2000 Narrative Themes in Oral Histories of Farming Folk Melissa Walker Melissa Walker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 340–351. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.2.340 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Melissa Walker; Narrative Themes in Oral Histories of Farming Folk. Agricultural History 1 January 2000; 74 (2): 340–3…
The Fruits of Their Labor
Reading Black, Reading Feminist
Down from the Mountaintop
Women Writing in America
In 11 essays, a distinguished interpreter of women's literature in America adds to an understanding of the process by which female experience is translated into the art of writing
Perspectives on a Decolonizing Approach to Research About Indigenous Women's Health
This paper explores a decolonizing approach to research about Indigenous women's health in Australia. The paper identifies the strengths of decolonizing methodologies as a way to prioritize Indigenous values and worldviews, develop partnerships between researchers and the researched, and contribute to positive change. The authors draw on Laenui's (2000) five-step model of decolonization to describe their work in the Indigenous Women's Wellness Pr…
Caring for the Caring Professionals Within a Cancer Hospital
Providing quality care to people approaching the end of their life within the hospital system is important. To date, only limited research has investigated the impact that providing care to people who are dying has on the diverse range of hospital staff who provide the care. As part of a needs assessment to identify the resources and service development required to support all hospital staff, Calvary Mater Newcastle Social Work Department invited…
Setting a New Agenda
The Australian National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Health Strategy was developed to reflect the health priorities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, as identified by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women themselves. This article describes the process used by the Australian Women’s Health Network to develop the strategy. The women involved in the research used the talking circle method and engaged with Aborigi…
Agricultural History Roundtable Complicating the Story
Five historians who have used oral history to study the rural South assess the ways that oral history methodology and content have complicated our understanding of the region’s agricultural past. They explore two major themes: first, the ways that the information gathered in oral history interviews revealed the diversity and complexity of the rural South and second, how the dialectical process of the interview—the give and take between interviewe…
All We Knew Was to Farm
Rural Life in the Upcountry South: Scene in 1920 2. Making Do and Doing Farm Women Cope with the Economic Crisis, 1920-1941 3. Grandma Would Find Some Way to Make Some Money: Farm Women's Cash Incomes 4. Mixed Messages: Home Extension Work among Upcountry Farm Women in the 1920s and 1930s 5. Government Relocation and Upcountry Women 6. Rural Women and Industrialization 7. Farm Wives and Commercial Farming 8. The Land of Do Without: Changing Face …
Culling the Men Out from the Boys
Historians examining twentieth-century transformations of the Southern countryside have shown us how larger structural forces such as world commodities markets, farm mechanization, and government agricultural policy changed the lives of rural Southerners. They have used oral histories to demonstrate how race, class, and gender have shaped rural peoples' responses to those structural forces. Individual responses were highly personal. Southern farm…
Women Writing in America
In 11 essays, a distinguished interpreter of women's literature in America adds to an understanding of the process by which female experience is translated into the art of writing
Down from the Mountaintop
Reading Black, Reading Feminist
The Fruits of Their Labor
Culling the Men Out from the Boys
Historians examining twentieth-century transformations of the Southern countryside have shown us how larger structural forces such as world commodities markets, farm mechanization, and government agricultural policy changed the lives of rural Southerners. They have used oral histories to demonstrate how race, class, and gender have shaped rural peoples' responses to those structural forces. Individual responses were highly personal. Southern farm…
Southern Folk Medicine, 1750–1820
Book Review| October 01 2000 Southern Folk Medicine, 1750–1820 Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820. Kay K. Moss. Melissa Walker Melissa Walker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2000) 74 (4): 837–838. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.4.837 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Melissa Walker; Southern Folk Medicine, 1750–1820. Agricultural History 1 January 2000; 74…
Narrative Themes in Oral Histories of Farming Folk
Research Article| April 01 2000 Narrative Themes in Oral Histories of Farming Folk Melissa Walker Melissa Walker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 340–351. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.2.340 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Melissa Walker; Narrative Themes in Oral Histories of Farming Folk. Agricultural History 1 January 2000; 74 (2): 340–3…
Consumers in the Country
Journal Article Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America. By Ronald R. Kline. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xii, 372 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-6248-5.) Get access Melissa Walker Melissa Walker Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages 696–697, https://d…
All We Knew Was to Farm
Rural Life in the Upcountry South: Scene in 1920 2. Making Do and Doing Farm Women Cope with the Economic Crisis, 1920-1941 3. Grandma Would Find Some Way to Make Some Money: Farm Women's Cash Incomes 4. Mixed Messages: Home Extension Work among Upcountry Farm Women in the 1920s and 1930s 5. Government Relocation and Upcountry Women 6. Rural Women and Industrialization 7. Farm Wives and Commercial Farming 8. The Land of Do Without: Changing Face …
A Kind of Fate
All We Knew Was to Farm
Problems of Plenty
Harder than Hardscrabble
Southern Farmers and Their Stories
Examining oral history narratives of more than five hundred farmers from all the southern states, Melissa Walker explores how farmers recall their agrarian past and the lessons that they draw from that past. These farmers understood that their way of life was passing - indeed, many of them would be pushed off the land forever - and they told stories to preserve a sense that their way of life mattered. Landowners and sharecroppers, native-born far…
Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America by Francesca Morgan
Agricultural History Roundtable Complicating the Story
Five historians who have used oral history to study the rural South assess the ways that oral history methodology and content have complicated our understanding of the region’s agricultural past. They explore two major themes: first, the ways that the information gathered in oral history interviews revealed the diversity and complexity of the rural South and second, how the dialectical process of the interview—the give and take between interviewe…
Setting a New Agenda
The Australian National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Health Strategy was developed to reflect the health priorities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, as identified by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women themselves. This article describes the process used by the Australian Women’s Health Network to develop the strategy. The women involved in the research used the talking circle method and engaged with Aborigi…
Contemporary Agrarianism
Agrarian ideology—the celebration of farming and rural life for the benefit it brings to individuals and the nation—has become part of a widespread national discourse about what we eat and how we live. This essay examines major tenets of new agrarian thinking and offers a critique of many of the assumptions that underlie the new agrarian movement. The author argues that incremental changes in consumer behavior can only achieve incremental improve…
Yarning” as a Method for Community-Based Health Research With Indigenous Women
This project explores yarning as a methodology for understanding health and wellness from an indigenous woman's perspective. Previous research exploring indigenous Australian women's perspectives have used traditional Western methodologies and have often been felt by the women themselves to be inappropriate and ineffective in gathering information and promoting discussion. This research arose from the indigenous women themselves, and resulted in …
The Battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens
The American South is so identified with the Civil War that people often forget that the key battles from the final years of the American Revolution were fought in Southern states. The Southern backcountry was the center of the fight for independence, but backcountry devotion to the Patriot cause was slow in coming. Decades of animosity between coastal elites and backcountry settlers who did not enjoy accurate representation in the assemblies mea…
Perspectives on a Decolonizing Approach to Research About Indigenous Women's Health
This paper explores a decolonizing approach to research about Indigenous women's health in Australia. The paper identifies the strengths of decolonizing methodologies as a way to prioritize Indigenous values and worldviews, develop partnerships between researchers and the researched, and contribute to positive change. The authors draw on Laenui's (2000) five-step model of decolonization to describe their work in the Indigenous Women's Wellness Pr…
Self-Made Maids
The victorian discourse of self-help , popularized by Samuel Smiles in the mid-nineteenth century, was integral to the success of mid-Victorian British emigration and colonialism. As Robert Hogg notes in his study of British colonial violence in British Columbia and Queensland, Samuel Smiles's notion of character, which embraced the virtues of hard work, perseverance, self-reliance, and energetic action, helped sanction masculine colonial violenc…
Southern Women in the Progressive Era
Caring for the Caring Professionals Within a Cancer Hospital
Providing quality care to people approaching the end of their life within the hospital system is important. To date, only limited research has investigated the impact that providing care to people who are dying has on the diverse range of hospital staff who provide the care. As part of a needs assessment to identify the resources and service development required to support all hospital staff, Calvary Mater Newcastle Social Work Department invited…
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