Paaige K Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 84091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paaige K Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paaige K |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER P K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Louis University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Decoding Gender
Film studies have extensively explored the content of films to draw the cultural implications of gender representations. However, rarely have film posters been studied to decode gender representations. Since film posters are designed as a marketing tool for films, they both draw from current cultural belief systems to entice attendance and simultaneously reinforce and redefine those systems. While the artist’s intent may be to highlight or portra…
Body of Research
The ways our physicality matters as we move through the world in our own bodies of research is often veiled in the body of qualitative research. In this article, we lift the veil, striving to flesh out the body of research on reflexivity by examining how our own researcher bodies have figured into our work. Specifically, we narrate and reflect on ways we have experienced our bodies as (presumed) impetus for, instrument of, and impediment to quali…
You Are Doing It Wrong
I, as have many other qualitative researchers, diligently report my demographics at the time I conduct and write my research in an effort to acknowledge that the researcher's voice is part of the meanings he/she creates. While doing so acknowledges key elements of my positionality or research self, it invokes a modernist conceptualization of voice as stable and time as linear while simultaneously reifying social constructs of the body. In this ar…
Mainstreaming Alternative Medicine
Joining the discussion regarding the future of alternative and traditional medical practices and beliefs, the author explores how operating within the dominant sociopolitical system challenges alternative health care providers' definitions of themselves, their practices, and their systems of beliefs. Specifically, this case study articulates the experiences of one group of birth care providers (both certified nurse and nonlicensed, apprentice-tra…
Is Childbirth With Midwives Natural? The Gaze of the Feminine and the Pull of the Masculine
Joining the ongoing dialogue regarding the need for reflexivity in qualitative research, this tale of the author's "natural" childbirth and subsequent research into the field of midwifery explores the tension between postmodern and modern aspects of her Self. The former accepts a lived experience of fragmented, separate selves and partial truth, whereas the latter wants an integrated, whole Self and absolute truth. Using introspection, this tensi…
What if you don't
A social constructionist reconfiguration of metaphor analysis
This article details a social constructionist reconfiguration of metaphor analysis (SCMA) that is advanced as a powerful, reflexive analytic tool for discourse—centered social constructionist investigations. We begin by delineating the general assumptions of social constructionism. Next we document the importance of reflexivity, second—order constructionism, and discourse to the social constructionist, together with the growing relevance of post—…
A social constructionist reconfiguration of metaphor analysis
This article details a social constructionist reconfiguration of metaphor analysis (SCMA) that is advanced as a powerful, reflexive analytic tool for discourse—centered social constructionist investigations. We begin by delineating the general assumptions of social constructionism. Next we document the importance of reflexivity, second—order constructionism, and discourse to the social constructionist, together with the growing relevance of post—…
Body of Research
The ways our physicality matters as we move through the world in our own bodies of research is often veiled in the body of qualitative research. In this article, we lift the veil, striving to flesh out the body of research on reflexivity by examining how our own researcher bodies have figured into our work. Specifically, we narrate and reflect on ways we have experienced our bodies as (presumed) impetus for, instrument of, and impediment to quali…
Is Childbirth With Midwives Natural? The Gaze of the Feminine and the Pull of the Masculine
Joining the ongoing dialogue regarding the need for reflexivity in qualitative research, this tale of the author's "natural" childbirth and subsequent research into the field of midwifery explores the tension between postmodern and modern aspects of her Self. The former accepts a lived experience of fragmented, separate selves and partial truth, whereas the latter wants an integrated, whole Self and absolute truth. Using introspection, this tensi…
What if you don't
You Are Doing It Wrong
I, as have many other qualitative researchers, diligently report my demographics at the time I conduct and write my research in an effort to acknowledge that the researcher's voice is part of the meanings he/she creates. While doing so acknowledges key elements of my positionality or research self, it invokes a modernist conceptualization of voice as stable and time as linear while simultaneously reifying social constructs of the body. In this ar…
A social constructionist reconfiguration of metaphor analysis
This article details a social constructionist reconfiguration of metaphor analysis (SCMA) that is advanced as a powerful, reflexive analytic tool for discourse—centered social constructionist investigations. We begin by delineating the general assumptions of social constructionism. Next we document the importance of reflexivity, second—order constructionism, and discourse to the social constructionist, together with the growing relevance of post—…
What if you don't
Is Childbirth With Midwives Natural? The Gaze of the Feminine and the Pull of the Masculine
Joining the ongoing dialogue regarding the need for reflexivity in qualitative research, this tale of the author's "natural" childbirth and subsequent research into the field of midwifery explores the tension between postmodern and modern aspects of her Self. The former accepts a lived experience of fragmented, separate selves and partial truth, whereas the latter wants an integrated, whole Self and absolute truth. Using introspection, this tensi…
Mainstreaming Alternative Medicine
Joining the discussion regarding the future of alternative and traditional medical practices and beliefs, the author explores how operating within the dominant sociopolitical system challenges alternative health care providers' definitions of themselves, their practices, and their systems of beliefs. Specifically, this case study articulates the experiences of one group of birth care providers (both certified nurse and nonlicensed, apprentice-tra…
You Are Doing It Wrong
I, as have many other qualitative researchers, diligently report my demographics at the time I conduct and write my research in an effort to acknowledge that the researcher's voice is part of the meanings he/she creates. While doing so acknowledges key elements of my positionality or research self, it invokes a modernist conceptualization of voice as stable and time as linear while simultaneously reifying social constructs of the body. In this ar…
Body of Research
The ways our physicality matters as we move through the world in our own bodies of research is often veiled in the body of qualitative research. In this article, we lift the veil, striving to flesh out the body of research on reflexivity by examining how our own researcher bodies have figured into our work. Specifically, we narrate and reflect on ways we have experienced our bodies as (presumed) impetus for, instrument of, and impediment to quali…
Decoding Gender
Film studies have extensively explored the content of films to draw the cultural implications of gender representations. However, rarely have film posters been studied to decode gender representations. Since film posters are designed as a marketing tool for films, they both draw from current cultural belief systems to entice attendance and simultaneously reinforce and redefine those systems. While the artist’s intent may be to highlight or portra…
Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (3 works) · Reflexivity (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)