Overcoming Ambivalence
The Challenges of Exploring Socially Charged Issues
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5454723 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Hurd Clarke, Laura Hurd (0000-0003-1913-348X, University of British Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 718-735 |
| Publication date | 2003-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Health Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1049732303013005009 |
| PMID | 12756690 |
| OpenAlex | W2127866714 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 29 |
In this article, the author considers the challenges associated with the investigation of sensitive and socially charged issues. Drawing on a qualitative study of older women's body image and embodied experience, she discusses how societal ambivalence toward older women's bodies and appearances shapes and constrains the establishment of rapport between a young researcher and the study participants. Exploring the internalized anxiety expressed by the women, she investigates how life history narratives, multiple interviews, photographs, location of the interview, self-disclosure, information sharing, provision of assistance, student and stranger statuses, collaborative interviewing, and impression management combine to enhance rapport and ease the women's sense of discomfort
Ambivalence · Anxiety · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Impression management · Interview · Narrative · Photo elicitation · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Social Psychology
Feminist methods in social research
How to do what we want to do
Situating Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork
Unbearable Weight
Am I Thin Enough Yet?
Chapter Six. From the Native's Point of View
Symbolic Interactionism
Doing research on sensitive topics
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Old Age
Older Women's Body Image and Embodied Experience
The Elastic Body Image
‘It's great to have someone to talk to'
Facing the Mirror
Doing Feminist Research
The body-as-object versus the body-as-process
Field Work Experience
Interviewing women
Leisure and resistance in an ageing society
The relationship between body shape satisfaction and self-esteem
The Everyday World as Problematic
The social construction of reality
From the Native's Point of View
Identity, Strategy, and Feminist Politics
Appalachian Women
Assumed and presumed identities
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,39 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2022 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |