Myfanwy Franks
Biographic Data
| ID | 3734568 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Myfanwy Franks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Myfanwy |
| FAMILY NAME | Franks |
| SIGNATURE | FRANKS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Children's Society |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Barriers to the Uptake of Emergency Accommodation by Young Runaways and Thrown‐out children and the Role of the ‘Transitional Person’
Young runaways and thrown‐out children, under‐16, face a number of barriers to accessing safe emergency accommodation. The need for such accommodation is not always apparent because children sometimes make themselves invisible to services through fear of being returned or fear of being removed from inappropriate accommodation. Young people's retrospective accounts of their experiences suggest the importance of a ‘transitional person’, an adult wh…
Pockets of Participation: Revisiting Child-Centred Participation Research
This article revisits the theme of the clash of interests and power relations at work in participatory research which is prescribed from above. It offers a possible route toward solving conflict between adult-led research carried out by young researchers, funding requirements and organisational constraints. The article explores issues of participation in child-centred research in a cross-cultural context and gives examples from research carried o…
Rural Runaways: Rurality and its Implications for Services to Children and Young People Who Run Away
This article debates options for service provision to young rural runaways in the UK. Using data drawn from two national surveys and follow‐on qualitative studies, the authors trace urban myths of rurality and their effects on runaway provision. The authors review models of rural refuge, systemic advocacy and mobile services for rural runaways. Evidence suggests that both young runaways’ services and young runaways themselves are particularly at …
Secular values and the location of religion: A spatial analysis of an English medical centre
Young helpline callers and difference: Exploring gender, ethnicity and sexuality in helpline access and provision
This article, which has its origin in a feasibility study carried out for three youth telephone helplines, focuses on gender, difference and helpline access by young people. During the research process the writers noted that for the three commissioning helplines, as is the case with the majority of other telephone helplines, approximately two-thirds of callers are female. A helpline for young Muslims where the gender access ratio was 50/50 stood …
Revue des revues
Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour Presses de Sciences Po. Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour Presses de Sciences Po. La reproduction ou reprsentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorise que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement. Toute autre reproduction ou reprsentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque …
Feminisms, Islamophobia and Identities
There has been a tendency of late to conflate all Muslims as belonging to a single nation and aspiring to a single political aim. This effect has been achieved by some authors so as to accommodate Islamophobia, but by others to generate a sense of inclusive unity that encloses all Muslims. We contend that in the post 9/11 climate of Islamophobia women wearing the scarf, the mohajabehs, are making a political choice. They are publicly branding the…
Reflexive Methodology
The subjects of this study are minority groups who, though strong in belief, are frequently vulnerable as individual believers who are swimming against the prevailing consumerist current. I shall therefore discuss not only the means by which I gained access to informants and the manner in which I collected data, but also how I deliberated on what might be a feminist way to proceed with my research and the conclusions I reached. In the interviewin…
Women and Revivalism in the West: Choosing 'Fundamentalism' in a Liberal Democracy
Why do some Western women choose to join Christian and Islamic revivalist movements in the present day? Revivalist religions (often called 'fundamentalist') have a reputation for the policing of gende
Caught in the crossfire: A case of mistaken identity among religious revivalists and secularists
The discussion of Islamic and Protestant revivalisms inflames not only believers but secularists as well. This paper is about standpoint and perceived standpoint in relation to carrying out feminist research about why some women in a liberal democracy join revivalist movements. The article also discusses the variegated nature of power relations within the research process. Situated within a Women's Studies Centre the author found herself in the c…
Crossing the borders of whiteness? White Muslim women who wear the hijab in Britain today
Literature which debates the degree of liberation or oppression associated with wearing the hijab is frequently focused on the Middle East. Two strands of feminist writing have either condemned the veil as oppressive or reframed it as liberating and as a sign of resistance. I argue that the significance of wearing the hijab in Britain is frequently missed. In Britain far from being a sign of conformity and fulfilling the function of making the we…
Crossing the borders of whiteness? White Muslim women who wear the hijab in Britain today
Literature which debates the degree of liberation or oppression associated with wearing the hijab is frequently focused on the Middle East. Two strands of feminist writing have either condemned the veil as oppressive or reframed it as liberating and as a sign of resistance. I argue that the significance of wearing the hijab in Britain is frequently missed. In Britain far from being a sign of conformity and fulfilling the function of making the we…
Feminisms, Islamophobia and Identities
There has been a tendency of late to conflate all Muslims as belonging to a single nation and aspiring to a single political aim. This effect has been achieved by some authors so as to accommodate Islamophobia, but by others to generate a sense of inclusive unity that encloses all Muslims. We contend that in the post 9/11 climate of Islamophobia women wearing the scarf, the mohajabehs, are making a political choice. They are publicly branding the…
Secular values and the location of religion: A spatial analysis of an English medical centre
Young helpline callers and difference: Exploring gender, ethnicity and sexuality in helpline access and provision
This article, which has its origin in a feasibility study carried out for three youth telephone helplines, focuses on gender, difference and helpline access by young people. During the research process the writers noted that for the three commissioning helplines, as is the case with the majority of other telephone helplines, approximately two-thirds of callers are female. A helpline for young Muslims where the gender access ratio was 50/50 stood …
Caught in the crossfire: A case of mistaken identity among religious revivalists and secularists
The discussion of Islamic and Protestant revivalisms inflames not only believers but secularists as well. This paper is about standpoint and perceived standpoint in relation to carrying out feminist research about why some women in a liberal democracy join revivalist movements. The article also discusses the variegated nature of power relations within the research process. Situated within a Women's Studies Centre the author found herself in the c…
Crossing the borders of whiteness? White Muslim women who wear the hijab in Britain today
Literature which debates the degree of liberation or oppression associated with wearing the hijab is frequently focused on the Middle East. Two strands of feminist writing have either condemned the veil as oppressive or reframed it as liberating and as a sign of resistance. I argue that the significance of wearing the hijab in Britain is frequently missed. In Britain far from being a sign of conformity and fulfilling the function of making the we…
Reflexive Methodology
The subjects of this study are minority groups who, though strong in belief, are frequently vulnerable as individual believers who are swimming against the prevailing consumerist current. I shall therefore discuss not only the means by which I gained access to informants and the manner in which I collected data, but also how I deliberated on what might be a feminist way to proceed with my research and the conclusions I reached. In the interviewin…
Women and Revivalism in the West: Choosing 'Fundamentalism' in a Liberal Democracy
Why do some Western women choose to join Christian and Islamic revivalist movements in the present day? Revivalist religions (often called 'fundamentalist') have a reputation for the policing of gende
Caught in the crossfire: A case of mistaken identity among religious revivalists and secularists
The discussion of Islamic and Protestant revivalisms inflames not only believers but secularists as well. This paper is about standpoint and perceived standpoint in relation to carrying out feminist research about why some women in a liberal democracy join revivalist movements. The article also discusses the variegated nature of power relations within the research process. Situated within a Women's Studies Centre the author found herself in the c…
Young helpline callers and difference: Exploring gender, ethnicity and sexuality in helpline access and provision
This article, which has its origin in a feasibility study carried out for three youth telephone helplines, focuses on gender, difference and helpline access by young people. During the research process the writers noted that for the three commissioning helplines, as is the case with the majority of other telephone helplines, approximately two-thirds of callers are female. A helpline for young Muslims where the gender access ratio was 50/50 stood …
Revue des revues
Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour Presses de Sciences Po. Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour Presses de Sciences Po. La reproduction ou reprsentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorise que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement. Toute autre reproduction ou reprsentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque …
Feminisms, Islamophobia and Identities
There has been a tendency of late to conflate all Muslims as belonging to a single nation and aspiring to a single political aim. This effect has been achieved by some authors so as to accommodate Islamophobia, but by others to generate a sense of inclusive unity that encloses all Muslims. We contend that in the post 9/11 climate of Islamophobia women wearing the scarf, the mohajabehs, are making a political choice. They are publicly branding the…
Secular values and the location of religion: A spatial analysis of an English medical centre
Rural Runaways: Rurality and its Implications for Services to Children and Young People Who Run Away
This article debates options for service provision to young rural runaways in the UK. Using data drawn from two national surveys and follow‐on qualitative studies, the authors trace urban myths of rurality and their effects on runaway provision. The authors review models of rural refuge, systemic advocacy and mobile services for rural runaways. Evidence suggests that both young runaways’ services and young runaways themselves are particularly at …
Pockets of Participation: Revisiting Child-Centred Participation Research
This article revisits the theme of the clash of interests and power relations at work in participatory research which is prescribed from above. It offers a possible route toward solving conflict between adult-led research carried out by young researchers, funding requirements and organisational constraints. The article explores issues of participation in child-centred research in a cross-cultural context and gives examples from research carried o…
Barriers to the Uptake of Emergency Accommodation by Young Runaways and Thrown‐out children and the Role of the ‘Transitional Person’
Young runaways and thrown‐out children, under‐16, face a number of barriers to accessing safe emergency accommodation. The need for such accommodation is not always apparent because children sometimes make themselves invisible to services through fear of being returned or fear of being removed from inappropriate accommodation. Young people's retrospective accounts of their experiences suggest the importance of a ‘transitional person’, an adult wh…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Islam (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)