Maggie Andrews
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 161406 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Maggie Andrews |
| PRENOMES | Maggie |
| SOBRENOME | Andrews |
| ASSINATURA | ANDREWS M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of East London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7429-7677 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 66 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 386 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Reading the silences
This article discusses the challenges of researching a biography of the personal, professional and political life of Lady Gertrude Denman (1884-1954).'Trudie' as she was familiarly known, took on leading roles in a number of organisations, including the Women's Institute Movement, the National Birth Control Council and the Women's Land Army.She also provided financial support to many organisations, including the Liberal party, to which she was po…
Haunting memories of the revolution
This paper uses the arguments set out in Bhekizizwe Peterson’s article “Spectrality and inter-generational black narratives in South Africa” as a framework to explore East German narratives of transformational change over the past 30 years, based on interviews with key anti-state activists. Of particular relevance for the East German case are Peterson’s commentaries on 1) contrasting the ‘limitless hope’ of the revolution with subsequent experien…
Homes, food and domesticity
This forum was inspired by the Women’s History Network (WHN) Annual Conference held online in September 2021. Its theme, ‘Homes, Food and Farms’, reflected the significant contribution made by wome
Rent Arrears, Food Shortages and Evacuees
The strong military traditions of Worcester may mean the city’s engagement in two world wars is often thought about in terms of the soldiers or even the ammunition produced at Blackpole Munitions Works. The ways in which both wars impacted the more mundane lives of the majority of women who were housewives have received less attention. As housewives, daughters, sisters or domestic servants, women undertook the lion’s share of the domestic and emo…
Women’s Activism in Twentieth-Century Britain
Women’s Activism in Twentieth-Century Britain: Making Difference across the Political Spectrum. By Paula Bartley. Palgrave Macmillan (imprint Springer Nature), Switzerland AG, 2022. xii + 286 pp. ISBN 978 03-030-92720-2, £24.99
Everyday Narratives of Resistance and Reconfigurations of Political Protest after the Pandemic-Editors' Introduction
Perhaps one of the most demanding challenges of the arrival of the COVID-19 crisis in early 2020 was the extent to which it arrived on top of a series of existing global crises
Narrative and truth in a world of alternative facts
This article explores the role of educators in our current environment, where truth and truthfulness must fight their corner in a world of ‘alternative facts’. The article opens with a review of the effects of the 24/7 news cycle on our sense of the overall well-being of the world, then discusses the meaning of moral identity and questions whether this is something which can be taught, and moves to a consideration of the role of moral mentors. Th…
Robert Snape, Leisure Voluntary Action and Social Change in Britain, 1880–1939
Quality indicators in narrative research
This article opens with a problematisation of how one can meaningfully discuss the concept of quality in a methodology as notoriously ‘murky’ as narrative research. Unlike other kinds of qualitative approaches, there is a lack of consensus of what constitutes narrative, much less a clearly prescribed protocol for ascertaining evaluation. It then proceeds by outlining three features of narrative research (the importance of stories, the ‘messy’ nat…
Fair Seed Time
This is a book review of Fair Seed Time: Robert Evans, Francis Newdigate and the Making of George Eliot by David Paterson, Leicester, Matador, 2019, 280 pp., Illustrations, £12 paperback, ISBN: 978-1-838591-46-5
Biographical interviews and imagined futures essay writing
This article reports on a conversation between users of two research methods, biographical interviews and imagined futures essay writing. A dialogue form is used to discuss these methods and their potential to be combined. The value of comparing research methods is discussed, and then the two methods are described and points of connection and contrast are explored. Although one method emphasises looking back while the other looks forward, the two…
Worcestershire's Women
On 6 February 1918, the Representation of the People Act was passed; it enfranchised all men over twenty‐one and women over the age of thirty if either they or their husband met the requisite property qualifications. In public and media history this legislation was regarded as a reward for women's contribution to the war effort and evidence that one of the legacies of the First World War was a range of new opportunities for women.1 This historica…
Women and Evacuation in the Second World War
Groups of young evacuees, standing on railway stations with gas masks and cardboard suitcases have become an iconic image of wartime Britain, but their histories have eclipsed those of women whose domestic lives were affected. This book explores the effects of this unparalleled interference in the domestic lives of women, looking at the impact on everyday experience and on ideas of femininity, domesticity and motherhood. Maggie Andrews argues tha…
The Narrative Architecture of Political Forgiveness
Although there is widespread agreement with the argument that Hannah Arendt made more than half a century ago, that forgiveness is “one of the human faculties that make social change possible” (Misztal, 2011, p. 201), beyond this, there is little consensus of what it means. Applying a narrative structure to this discussion, there is a lack of clarity around questions of who, what, where, when, and why to forgive. This article will explore the pol…
Commemorating the First World War in Britain
One of the often-overlooked legacies of the First World War is how the conflict established the media’s role in remembrance. In the years that have followed, media’s circulation of iconic images of national and local commemoration have enabled individuals to engage with public remembrance. This article takes a historical approach to First World War remembrance in Britain, looking at how the practices and meaning of remembrance became established,…
Entitlement and the shaping of First World War commemorative histories
The four years of commemorative outpouring and activities in response to the Centenary of the First World War have led to the production of a multiplicity of amateur and professional, academic, media and community histories of the conflict. These can be seen as exciting examples of what Raphael Samuel (2012) once optimistically described as history made by a thousand hands, which can democratize the past. However, all histories are framed by the …
Imagining the 'baffling geography' of age
Representing, Remembering and Rewriting Women's Histories of the First World War
persuasively argued, in the British popular imagination the First World War is associated with mud, barbed wire, the trenches and the Tommy on the Western Front. 1 Perhaps inevitably, therefore, public commemoration of the war has often been dominated by a focus on the men in the armed forces, who risked or lost their lives for causes that at the time may or may not have seemed heroic, noble or simply unavoidable
Radical reformers and respectable rebels
Enduring ideals
This article examines political commitment to work for progressive social change as a lifelong activity. Challenging assumptions that idealism is something which is associated with youth, and, appropriately, later to be ‘grown out of’, the article presents an alternative model for examining social activism as a lifelong engagement. Revisiting research published 25 years ago (Lifetimes of commitment: Aging, politics, psychology, Cambridge Universi…
Narrative, imagination and extending visions of the possible
Cet article examine pourquoi l’imagination est centrale pour la narration et comment la narration représente une composante vitale de l’imagination. Quel est donc le rôle de l’imagination en nous aidant à « voir autrement », pas seulement entre nous-mêmes et les autres, mais aussi entre nous-mêmes et qui nous pourrions être ou qui nous aurions pu être ? L’article explore la nature située de l’imagination et son rôle critique dans la vie quotidien…
Behind the Wireless
"Behind the Wireless: a history of early women at the BBC, Kate Murphy." Women's History Review, 26(3), pp. 515–516
Home Fronts, Gender War and Conflict
Introduction to special edition of Womens History Review special edition on Gender War and Conflict
Tropes and Trench Cakes
The recent WW1 'fest' has provided a multitude of different engagements with the history of this conflict by media and community groups. The relationship between these histories and academic history is not unproblematic. It provides space for a greater emphasis on the home front but there are questions to be asked about the politics and the accuracy of such history. It is up to academics to find ways of working with popular histories which ensure…
The WI's rural retailing and markets 1915–1939
The Women's Institute Movement was set up under the auspices of the Agricultural Organisation Society in 1915 to improve the food supply during the Great War. The Women's Institutes encouraged food saving and preservation. This article draws attention to the rural retailing opportunities and markets that were established by the WI in wartime and continued to develop in the inter-war period, assisted by grants from the Carnegie Trust in the 1930s.…
Doing Narrative Research
List of Contributors Introduction: What is Narrative Research? - Maria Tamboukou and Molly Andrews, Corinne Squire Narratives of Events: Labovian Narrative Analysis and its Limitations - Wendy Patterson From Experience-Centred to Socioculturally-Oriented Approaches to Narrative - Corinne Squire Analysing Narrative Contexts - Ann Phoenix A Foucauldian Approach to Narratives - Maria Tamboukou Practising a Rhizomatic Perspective in Narrative Researc…
What is Narrative Research
Narrative research has become a catchword in the social sciences today, promising new fields of inquiry and creative solutions to persistent problems. This book brings together ideas about narrative from a variety of contexts across the social sciences and synthesizes understandings of the field. Rather than focusing on theory, it examines how narrative research is conducted and applied. It operates as a practical introductory guide, basic enough…
The seductiveness of agelessness
In recent years, many researchers in the study of ageing have adopted a terminology of ‘agelessness’. They argue that old age is nothing more than a social construct and that until it is eliminated as a conceptual category, ageism will continue to flourish. This article challenges this view, stating that the current tendency towards ‘agelessness’ is itself a form of ageism, depriving the old of one of their most hard-earned resources: their age. …
Grand national narratives and the project of truth commissions
This article will compare the narrative projects of nation building and dismantling as represented in the truth commissions of South Africa and East Germany. One of the most important aspects of truth commissions is that personal suffering on a wide scale is publicly acknowledged and written into the national fabric. The relationship between individual and collective memory is a powerful one; through the testimonies that it has documented, the Tr…
Narratives of (In)Security
Counter-narratives and the power to oppose
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Memories of mother
One of the most dominant cultural narratives is ‘the story of mothering’ but as many researchers have documented, there is a large chasm between this cultural product and individuals’ lived experiences of mothering and being mothered. When individuals talk about their relationships with their mothers, they locate themselves knowingly or not politically, economically, and historically. This article analyses data based on in-depth interviews with f…
Feminist Research with Non-Feminist and Anti-Feminist Women
Feminist scholars conducting research with non-feminist and anti-feminist women are confronted with a dilemma that is rarely articulated in feminist writing: how can we represent these women's lives as they experience them while at the same time challenging women's oppression? A related dilemma is whether a feminist researcher is justified in describing a woman as a feminist if that term is not one that the woman herself would select. The article…
Quality indicators in narrative research
This article opens with a problematisation of how one can meaningfully discuss the concept of quality in a methodology as notoriously ‘murky’ as narrative research. Unlike other kinds of qualitative approaches, there is a lack of consensus of what constitutes narrative, much less a clearly prescribed protocol for ascertaining evaluation. It then proceeds by outlining three features of narrative research (the importance of stories, the ‘messy’ nat…
Victory Through Harmony
Christina L. Baade, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, 275 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-537201-4 (hbk), (£30.00) Christina Baade's scholarly text on the relationship between the BBC and popular music is
The narrative complexity of successful ageing
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue for an archaeological expedition of sorts, to search for and to uncover a host of stories which might assist us in piecing together a framework worth dedicating our future lives to understanding ageing
Calendar Ladies
Using the recent popularity of the Rystone Women's Institute millennium calendar as a starting point and drawing upon a range of popular texts, this article argues that where once the middle-aged, middle-class domestic woman was seen as the negation of sexuality and 'others' were defined by their embodiment of sexuality, in the last 25 years, informed by second-wave feminism, discourses of female sexuality have shifted and been wrenched; division…
The Politics of Forgiveness
Enduring ideals
This article examines political commitment to work for progressive social change as a lifelong activity. Challenging assumptions that idealism is something which is associated with youth, and, appropriately, later to be ‘grown out of’, the article presents an alternative model for examining social activism as a lifelong engagement. Revisiting research published 25 years ago (Lifetimes of commitment: Aging, politics, psychology, Cambridge Universi…
Unexpecting age
Introduction
(2011). Introduction: National memory and war. Journal of War & Culture Studies: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 283-288
Ageful and proud
There is something splendid about the word ageful – a word which I had not encountered before reading Bytheway (2000). Ironically, Bytheway does not share my affection for his invention; rather, for him it seems to have negative connotations, reflected in his comment: ‘as gerontologists we are vulnerable to seeing ourselves and those we study entirely in terms of age: as ageing rather than living individuals: ageful rather than ageless’ (2000: 78…
Commemorating the First World War in Britain
One of the often-overlooked legacies of the First World War is how the conflict established the media’s role in remembrance. In the years that have followed, media’s circulation of iconic images of national and local commemoration have enabled individuals to engage with public remembrance. This article takes a historical approach to First World War remembrance in Britain, looking at how the practices and meaning of remembrance became established,…
Mediating remembrance
In the period since the First World War both conflict and remembrance have been experienced at a personal level and through a range of media. This article discusses the growing significance of broadcast remembrance texts focusing upon three recent television texts: The Fallen (BBC 2) (Matthews, 2008), My Boy Jack (ITV) (Kirk, 2007) and My Family at War (BBC 1) (Austin, 2008). It is suggested that personalization, celebrity and domesticity within …
I. Breaking Down Barriers
The article explores the relationship between the three labels of feminist political psychologist from the perspective of the author. It interweaves personal narrative with case studies to illustrate how these three concepts are intricately bound together. In order to pursue research in political psychology gender can not be ignored as a central category in the way social, economic and political life are organized. Furthermore for the author Femi…
Criticism/ Self-Criticism in East Germany
East Germany's revolution has been portrayed in the western media as a popular uprising rejecting the old socialist order and wholeheartedly embracing Western capitalism. This article examines the politics of leaders of the East German citizens' movement who spearheaded these changes in 1989, using data collected with prominent dissidents nearly three years after the opening of the Berlin Wall. The critical intelligentsia of East Germany were uni…
Fair Seed Time
This is a book review of Fair Seed Time: Robert Evans, Francis Newdigate and the Making of George Eliot by David Paterson, Leicester, Matador, 2019, 280 pp., Illustrations, £12 paperback, ISBN: 978-1-838591-46-5
Biographical interviews and imagined futures essay writing
This article reports on a conversation between users of two research methods, biographical interviews and imagined futures essay writing. A dialogue form is used to discuss these methods and their potential to be combined. The value of comparing research methods is discussed, and then the two methods are described and points of connection and contrast are explored. Although one method emphasises looking back while the other looks forward, the two…
The Narrative Architecture of Political Forgiveness
Although there is widespread agreement with the argument that Hannah Arendt made more than half a century ago, that forgiveness is “one of the human faculties that make social change possible” (Misztal, 2011, p. 201), beyond this, there is little consensus of what it means. Applying a narrative structure to this discussion, there is a lack of clarity around questions of who, what, where, when, and why to forgive. This article will explore the pol…
Entitlement and the shaping of First World War commemorative histories
The four years of commemorative outpouring and activities in response to the Centenary of the First World War have led to the production of a multiplicity of amateur and professional, academic, media and community histories of the conflict. These can be seen as exciting examples of what Raphael Samuel (2012) once optimistically described as history made by a thousand hands, which can democratize the past. However, all histories are framed by the …
Lifetimes of Commitment
This book is an exploration of the ways in which political belief is developed and sustained throughout the course of a lifetime. Through extensive interviews, it focuses on the lives of fifteen British men and women, aged between seventy and ninety, who have dedicated half a century or longer to working for social change and justice. From Dorothy Greenald's commitment to provision of adequate housing for prisoners' families to Walter Gregory's a…
Apple Pie and the Politics of Protest
The Gulf war presented American2 public with compelling images, particularly for those interested in melange of politics and psychology. Many who came to political maturity during Vietnam years regard burning of American flag as symbol par excellence of resistance and protest. But one need only to have attended one of demonstrations against U.S. involvement in Persian Gulf in early months of 1991 to see that, indeed, the times are a-changing. Far…
Against Good Advice
In this article the author discusses the challenges and rewards of conducting cross-cultural sociological research in a non-native language. The argument is illustrated through the author's personal experience conducting oral history research in Berlin.
Book notes
The Emergence of East Central European Parliaments: The First Steps edited by Attila Agh. Budapest: Hungarian Centre of Democracy Studies, 1994. Pp.306. NP. ISBN 963 7415 96 3 Nonviolent Struggle and the Revolution in East Germany by Roland Bleiker. Cambridge, MA: The Albert Einstein Institution, 1993. Pp.53. NP. ISBN 880813 07 6 The Russian Press from Brezhnev to Yeltsin: Behind the Paper Curtain by John Murray. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1994. Pp…
After the Wall
The Acceptable Face of Feminism
Whose feminism? the early years identity problems - a history of the histories politics and patchwork campaigns war years Denman College feminism and flower arranging
Criticism/ Self-Criticism in East Germany
East Germany's revolution has been portrayed in the western media as a popular uprising rejecting the old socialist order and wholeheartedly embracing Western capitalism. This article examines the politics of leaders of the East German citizens' movement who spearheaded these changes in 1989, using data collected with prominent dissidents nearly three years after the opening of the Berlin Wall. The critical intelligentsia of East Germany were uni…
The Politics of Forgiveness
The seductiveness of agelessness
In recent years, many researchers in the study of ageing have adopted a terminology of ‘agelessness’. They argue that old age is nothing more than a social construct and that until it is eliminated as a conceptual category, ageism will continue to flourish. This article challenges this view, stating that the current tendency towards ‘agelessness’ is itself a form of ageism, depriving the old of one of their most hard-earned resources: their age. …
Ageful and proud
There is something splendid about the word ageful – a word which I had not encountered before reading Bytheway (2000). Ironically, Bytheway does not share my affection for his invention; rather, for him it seems to have negative connotations, reflected in his comment: ‘as gerontologists we are vulnerable to seeing ourselves and those we study entirely in terms of age: as ageing rather than living individuals: ageful rather than ageless’ (2000: 78…
Continuity and Adaptation in Aging
Feminist Research with Non-feminist and Anti-feminist Women
Feminist scholars conducting research with non-feminist and anti-feminist women are confronted with a dilemma that is rarely articulated in feminist writing: how can we represent these women's lives as they experience them while at the same time challenging women's oppression? A related dilemma is whether a feminist researcher is justified in describing a woman as a feminist if that term is not one that the woman herself would select. The article…
Memories of mother
One of the most dominant cultural narratives is ‘the story of mothering’ but as many researchers have documented, there is a large chasm between this cultural product and individuals’ lived experiences of mothering and being mothered. When individuals talk about their relationships with their mothers, they locate themselves knowingly or not politically, economically, and historically. This article analyses data based on in-depth interviews with f…
Counter-narratives and the power to oppose
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Feminist Research with Non-Feminist and Anti-Feminist Women
Feminist scholars conducting research with non-feminist and anti-feminist women are confronted with a dilemma that is rarely articulated in feminist writing: how can we represent these women's lives as they experience them while at the same time challenging women's oppression? A related dilemma is whether a feminist researcher is justified in describing a woman as a feminist if that term is not one that the woman herself would select. The article…
Grand national narratives and the project of truth commissions
This article will compare the narrative projects of nation building and dismantling as represented in the truth commissions of South Africa and East Germany. One of the most important aspects of truth commissions is that personal suffering on a wide scale is publicly acknowledged and written into the national fabric. The relationship between individual and collective memory is a powerful one; through the testimonies that it has documented, the Tr…
Calendar Ladies
Using the recent popularity of the Rystone Women's Institute millennium calendar as a starting point and drawing upon a range of popular texts, this article argues that where once the middle-aged, middle-class domestic woman was seen as the negation of sexuality and 'others' were defined by their embodiment of sexuality, in the last 25 years, informed by second-wave feminism, discourses of female sexuality have shifted and been wrenched; division…
Opening to the original contributions
Introduction to the book
I. Breaking Down Barriers
The article explores the relationship between the three labels of feminist political psychologist from the perspective of the author. It interweaves personal narrative with case studies to illustrate how these three concepts are intricately bound together. In order to pursue research in political psychology gender can not be ignored as a central category in the way social, economic and political life are organized. Furthermore for the author Femi…
Shaping History
Featuring extraordinary personal accounts, this book provides a unique window through which to examine some of the great political changes of our time, and reveals both the potential and the challenge of narrating the political world. Molly Andrews' novel analysis of the relationship between history and biography presents in-depth case studies of four different countries, offers insights into controversial issues such as the explosion of patrioti…
“Pero si no he acabado… Tengo más que contar”
Persons who submitted applications to give testimony received very clear guidance on where their stories should begin, and where they should end; those who wanted to contextualize their experiences of loss were not allowed a platform to contemplate the wider causes of their suffering. Some who gave testimony before the TRC recalled afterwards the acute pain brought on by the lack of closure which they experienced in this process. Capturing storie…
Never the Last Word
Introduction
I live in terror of not being misunderstood (Oscar Wilde, ‘The Critic as Artist’) In the last three decades, narrative has acquired an increasingly high profile in social research
Doing Narrative Research
List of Contributors Introduction: What is Narrative Research? - Maria Tamboukou and Molly Andrews, Corinne Squire Narratives of Events: Labovian Narrative Analysis and its Limitations - Wendy Patterson From Experience-Centred to Socioculturally-Oriented Approaches to Narrative - Corinne Squire Analysing Narrative Contexts - Ann Phoenix A Foucauldian Approach to Narratives - Maria Tamboukou Practising a Rhizomatic Perspective in Narrative Researc…
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