Leslie Rebecca Bloom
Biographic Data
| ID | 657840 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie Rebecca Bloom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Bloom |
| SIGNATURE | BLOOM L R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7256-1438 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Our Actions, Our Stories: A Readers Theater
This article presents the script of Our Actions, Our Stories: A Readers Theater that was researched, written, and presented by students in a women’s and gender studies (WGS) class called “Action: Intersections and Coalitions.” Based on qualitative interviews, the script illustrates six respondents’ perspectives on their activism and explores their backgrounds and intersectional identities in relation to these. The readers theater explores how act…
Powerful Methodologies/Powerful Pedagogy: Autoethnography and Dialogic Interviews in a WGS Empowerment Self-Defense Class
Autoethnography and dialogic interviewing are valued qualitative research methodologies across multiple disciplines. However, their use in college classrooms as a focal point of student writing, learning, and empowerment is less documented than its use in research studies despite being powerful learning tools. I describe my use of these methodologies in a women’s and gender studies course. Grounded in compelling examples from students’ autoethnog…
The Myth of the American Dream: A Readers Theater
This article presents the script of “The Myth of the American Dream,” a readers theater researched, written, and presented by students in a women's and gender studies class called “Women, Social Class, and Social Policy.” The script illustrates six diverse respondents’ perspectives on how family backgrounds, intersectional identities, and high school experiences influenced college access and experiences, student debt, and current circumstances. T…
Research from a Social Justice Perspective: The Systematization of an Experience
This article presents the results of the reflective process of “systematization” that was carried out by a group of researchers from different disciplines. The goal of the reflective process was to answer the question “What does it mean to have a social justice perspective when conducting qualitative research?” We draw from moral and political philosophy to chart our theoretical route. We highlight how research grounded on social justice values r…
Identify This: A Readers Theater of Women's Voices
Readers theater productions are meaningful expressions of creative pedagogy in higher education. This article presents the script of a readers theater called Identify This... A Readers Theater of Women's Voices, which was researched, written, and produced by undergraduate and graduate students in a women's studies class called Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender. Section one of the article reproduces the script of Identify This that was base…
Ethical responsibility in feminist research: Challenging ourselves to do activist research with women in poverty
For those who seek to conduct qualitative research that makes a positive difference in the lives of women in poverty, feminist research methodologies offer the most productive guide. Researchers must partner with those we study and foreground participants’ own perceptions of their challenges, while analyzing structural discrimination and identifying ‘sites of possibilities’ to leverage social and policy change. Attempting to follow all the recomm…
When one person makes it, we all make it’: A study of Beyond Welfare , a women‐centered community‐based organization that helps low‐income mothers achieve personal and academic success
Access to post‐secondary education for welfare recipients has been profoundly curtailed by social and welfare policies. However, many low‐income mothers know that post‐secondary education is the best means to escape poverty. This article focuses on five ‘student mothers’ who have persisted in fulfilling their dreams of a college education with the aid of Beyond Welfare, a community‐based organization (CBO) that helps soften the hardships of juggl…
Global perspectives on poverty research for social justice
The special issue of QSE includes five articles from an interdisciplinary and international group of qualitative researchers who describe their experiences conducting qualitative research with impoverished women and families. The articles focus on how qualitative approaches such as focus group interviews, participatory action research, team interviewing, video‐making, and feminist methodology can increase understandings about poverty, contribute …
The Volunteer Citizen After Welfare Reform in the United States: An Ethnographic Study of Volunteerism in Action
In the United States, neoliberal strategies for social, economic, and state organization have been accompanied by frequent calls for volunteers to solve serious social problems. A case study of a community mobilization of middle-class volunteers to provide one-on-one support to families in poverty shows both possibilities and limitations. Volunteers provide social support to families in poverty, thus alleviating social isolation. Volunteers learn…
Articles
Interpreting interpretation: Gender, sexuality and the practice of not reading straight
This article explores the ways in which qualitative researchers may approach the interpretation of sex, gender, sexuality, and sexual desires in personal narratives. The author illustrates, through a critical analysis of her own process of interpretation and subsequent reinterpretations, multiple epistemological perspectives that can be used to analyze narratives of gender and sexuality
Under the Sign of Hope: Feminist Methodology and Narrative Interpretation
The Politics of Difference and Multicultural Feminism: Reconceptualizing Education for Democracy
Contemporary society and social education would benefit by being reconceptualized according to a multicultural feminist theoretical standpoint that asserts a politics of difference in place of the current ideology of universality. Making this case, the author critiques universality as it is used in public discourse and policy and demonstrates how, despite its apparent orientation toward egalitarianism, universality has failed to secure equal righ…
A Feminist Reading of Men's Health: Or, When Paglia Speaks, the Media Listens
Locked in Uneasy Sisterhood: Reflections on Feminist Methodology and Research Relations
Stories of One's Own: Nonunitary Subjectivity in Narrative Representation
This article examines the interrelated concepts of self-representation in personal narratives and the production of nonunitary subjectivity as a site of interpretation in qualitative research. Through close interpretations of narrative data, I analyze how subjectivity is manifested in narratives. I conclude both that nonunitary self-representation subverts humanist and patriarchal modes of discourse and that the act of narrating a nonunitary self…
Stories of One's Own: Nonunitary Subjectivity in Narrative Representation
This article examines the interrelated concepts of self-representation in personal narratives and the production of nonunitary subjectivity as a site of interpretation in qualitative research. Through close interpretations of narrative data, I analyze how subjectivity is manifested in narratives. I conclude both that nonunitary self-representation subverts humanist and patriarchal modes of discourse and that the act of narrating a nonunitary self…
The Volunteer Citizen After Welfare Reform in the United States: An Ethnographic Study of Volunteerism in Action
In the United States, neoliberal strategies for social, economic, and state organization have been accompanied by frequent calls for volunteers to solve serious social problems. A case study of a community mobilization of middle-class volunteers to provide one-on-one support to families in poverty shows both possibilities and limitations. Volunteers provide social support to families in poverty, thus alleviating social isolation. Volunteers learn…
Ethical responsibility in feminist research: Challenging ourselves to do activist research with women in poverty
For those who seek to conduct qualitative research that makes a positive difference in the lives of women in poverty, feminist research methodologies offer the most productive guide. Researchers must partner with those we study and foreground participants’ own perceptions of their challenges, while analyzing structural discrimination and identifying ‘sites of possibilities’ to leverage social and policy change. Attempting to follow all the recomm…
Locked in Uneasy Sisterhood: Reflections on Feminist Methodology and Research Relations
When one person makes it, we all make it’: A study of Beyond Welfare , a women‐centered community‐based organization that helps low‐income mothers achieve personal and academic success
Access to post‐secondary education for welfare recipients has been profoundly curtailed by social and welfare policies. However, many low‐income mothers know that post‐secondary education is the best means to escape poverty. This article focuses on five ‘student mothers’ who have persisted in fulfilling their dreams of a college education with the aid of Beyond Welfare, a community‐based organization (CBO) that helps soften the hardships of juggl…
Global perspectives on poverty research for social justice
The special issue of QSE includes five articles from an interdisciplinary and international group of qualitative researchers who describe their experiences conducting qualitative research with impoverished women and families. The articles focus on how qualitative approaches such as focus group interviews, participatory action research, team interviewing, video‐making, and feminist methodology can increase understandings about poverty, contribute …
The Politics of Difference and Multicultural Feminism: Reconceptualizing Education for Democracy
Contemporary society and social education would benefit by being reconceptualized according to a multicultural feminist theoretical standpoint that asserts a politics of difference in place of the current ideology of universality. Making this case, the author critiques universality as it is used in public discourse and policy and demonstrates how, despite its apparent orientation toward egalitarianism, universality has failed to secure equal righ…
Articles
Interpreting interpretation: Gender, sexuality and the practice of not reading straight
This article explores the ways in which qualitative researchers may approach the interpretation of sex, gender, sexuality, and sexual desires in personal narratives. The author illustrates, through a critical analysis of her own process of interpretation and subsequent reinterpretations, multiple epistemological perspectives that can be used to analyze narratives of gender and sexuality
Stories of One's Own: Nonunitary Subjectivity in Narrative Representation
This article examines the interrelated concepts of self-representation in personal narratives and the production of nonunitary subjectivity as a site of interpretation in qualitative research. Through close interpretations of narrative data, I analyze how subjectivity is manifested in narratives. I conclude both that nonunitary self-representation subverts humanist and patriarchal modes of discourse and that the act of narrating a nonunitary self…
A Feminist Reading of Men's Health: Or, When Paglia Speaks, the Media Listens
Locked in Uneasy Sisterhood: Reflections on Feminist Methodology and Research Relations
Under the Sign of Hope: Feminist Methodology and Narrative Interpretation
The Politics of Difference and Multicultural Feminism: Reconceptualizing Education for Democracy
Contemporary society and social education would benefit by being reconceptualized according to a multicultural feminist theoretical standpoint that asserts a politics of difference in place of the current ideology of universality. Making this case, the author critiques universality as it is used in public discourse and policy and demonstrates how, despite its apparent orientation toward egalitarianism, universality has failed to secure equal righ…
Interpreting interpretation: Gender, sexuality and the practice of not reading straight
This article explores the ways in which qualitative researchers may approach the interpretation of sex, gender, sexuality, and sexual desires in personal narratives. The author illustrates, through a critical analysis of her own process of interpretation and subsequent reinterpretations, multiple epistemological perspectives that can be used to analyze narratives of gender and sexuality
Articles
The Volunteer Citizen After Welfare Reform in the United States: An Ethnographic Study of Volunteerism in Action
In the United States, neoliberal strategies for social, economic, and state organization have been accompanied by frequent calls for volunteers to solve serious social problems. A case study of a community mobilization of middle-class volunteers to provide one-on-one support to families in poverty shows both possibilities and limitations. Volunteers provide social support to families in poverty, thus alleviating social isolation. Volunteers learn…
Identify This: A Readers Theater of Women's Voices
Readers theater productions are meaningful expressions of creative pedagogy in higher education. This article presents the script of a readers theater called Identify This... A Readers Theater of Women's Voices, which was researched, written, and produced by undergraduate and graduate students in a women's studies class called Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender. Section one of the article reproduces the script of Identify This that was base…
Ethical responsibility in feminist research: Challenging ourselves to do activist research with women in poverty
For those who seek to conduct qualitative research that makes a positive difference in the lives of women in poverty, feminist research methodologies offer the most productive guide. Researchers must partner with those we study and foreground participants’ own perceptions of their challenges, while analyzing structural discrimination and identifying ‘sites of possibilities’ to leverage social and policy change. Attempting to follow all the recomm…
When one person makes it, we all make it’: A study of Beyond Welfare , a women‐centered community‐based organization that helps low‐income mothers achieve personal and academic success
Access to post‐secondary education for welfare recipients has been profoundly curtailed by social and welfare policies. However, many low‐income mothers know that post‐secondary education is the best means to escape poverty. This article focuses on five ‘student mothers’ who have persisted in fulfilling their dreams of a college education with the aid of Beyond Welfare, a community‐based organization (CBO) that helps soften the hardships of juggl…
Global perspectives on poverty research for social justice
The special issue of QSE includes five articles from an interdisciplinary and international group of qualitative researchers who describe their experiences conducting qualitative research with impoverished women and families. The articles focus on how qualitative approaches such as focus group interviews, participatory action research, team interviewing, video‐making, and feminist methodology can increase understandings about poverty, contribute …
Research from a Social Justice Perspective: The Systematization of an Experience
This article presents the results of the reflective process of “systematization” that was carried out by a group of researchers from different disciplines. The goal of the reflective process was to answer the question “What does it mean to have a social justice perspective when conducting qualitative research?” We draw from moral and political philosophy to chart our theoretical route. We highlight how research grounded on social justice values r…
The Myth of the American Dream: A Readers Theater
This article presents the script of “The Myth of the American Dream,” a readers theater researched, written, and presented by students in a women's and gender studies class called “Women, Social Class, and Social Policy.” The script illustrates six diverse respondents’ perspectives on how family backgrounds, intersectional identities, and high school experiences influenced college access and experiences, student debt, and current circumstances. T…
Our Actions, Our Stories: A Readers Theater
This article presents the script of Our Actions, Our Stories: A Readers Theater that was researched, written, and presented by students in a women’s and gender studies (WGS) class called “Action: Intersections and Coalitions.” Based on qualitative interviews, the script illustrates six respondents’ perspectives on their activism and explores their backgrounds and intersectional identities in relation to these. The readers theater explores how act…
Powerful Methodologies/Powerful Pedagogy: Autoethnography and Dialogic Interviews in a WGS Empowerment Self-Defense Class
Autoethnography and dialogic interviewing are valued qualitative research methodologies across multiple disciplines. However, their use in college classrooms as a focal point of student writing, learning, and empowerment is less documented than its use in research studies despite being powerful learning tools. I describe my use of these methodologies in a women’s and gender studies course. Grounded in compelling examples from students’ autoethnog…
Sociology (16 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Qualitative research (6 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (6 works)