Unrelated Kin: Race and Gender in Women's Personal Narratives. Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis , Michele FosterTake My Word: Autobiographical Innovations of Ethnic American Working Women. Anne E. GoldmanWomen Reading Women Writing: Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde. AnaLouise Keating

Signs ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 275-279
Author(s):  
Valerie Lee
Keyword(s):  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Gloria Anzaldua ◽  
Audre Lorde ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Paula Gunn Allen ◽  
Women Writing ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals Visibility Of Invisible Home-Based Women Workers: A Recent Study Of Home-Based Women In Karachi

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-59
Author(s):  
Muhammad Nademullah ◽  
Nasreen Aslam Shah
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Economic Contribution ◽  
And Gender

This paper is based on a recent field research conducted in nine towns of Karachi which explored nine hundred home-based women workers’ experiences and perceptions and documented the typology of the work accomplished by them. Working under harsh circumstances, caught in the cobweb of poverty and patriarchal forces, the low-paid work of these women forms a link between the walled enclosures of their homes and the economic transactions in the markets outside. The data collected from the home-based women workers, selected randomly, through questionnaires and personal narratives reveal that they do work within the walled spaces of their homes but their lives are neither bounded by space nor they live in isolation. On the contrary, they are well aware of the world outside and understand how forces of corruption and exploitation working under the aegis of capitalist economy play havoc in their lives. Their resolve to confront poverty, to challenge exploitative forces, to toil hard for a better life for their children, and to act as role models for other women, make them as visible partners of efforts geared to have a self-sustained Pakistan. This paper by deconstructing the myth of Pakistani women’s existence as prisoners within their homes, presents a picture of women who through their visible economic contribution are making viable changes in the society. All this, thus transforms the home-based working women who have been consistently, though wrongly portrayed as ‘invisible’ into autonomous beings, visible to those who have an eye to see the reality. The paper also seeks to critically look at the norms of patriarchy, including the traditional codes of observing pardah in the context of women and gender in Pakistan. This paper also develops an argument showing how patriarchal traditions tend to hide all weaker segments of society- men and women, and makes them visible only when their services are required.

The Virtue of Defiance and Psychiatric Engagement

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Nyquist Potter
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Practical Reasoning ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
Defiant Behavior ◽  
And Gender

The Virtue of Defiance and Psychiatric Engagement argues that defiance sometimes is a virtue even for those with mental illnesses. It also argues that defiance is sometimes mistaken as a sign of mental disorder when it may have other, reasonable explanations. This book offers a nuanced and complex look at defiance, taking seriously issues of mental disorders while also attending to social contexts in which defiant behavior may arise. Arguments are presented for how to understand defiance as different from noncompliance, resistance, and other related concepts, and how defiance is related to living a life with a realistic understanding of a flourishing life and its limits in our everyday world. A framework for differentiating different forms of defiance is offered, and a realistic picture of phronesis—practical reasoning—is presented that makes room for clinicians as well as patients to assess the degree to which defiance is reasonable. The concept of intersectionality as it relates to child development is worked through to highlight some of the challenges clinicians face when interpreting defiant behavior. Particular attention is given to issues of race and gender as factors that need to be considered when evaluating defiant behavior as reasonable, virtuous, bad, or symptomatic. Practical applications for psychiatric engagement are threaded throughout this book through case studies and personal narratives. The virtue of giving uptake is introduced to assist psychiatrists in being responsible and ethical knowers when working with people who are or seem to be defiant.

Referral Patterns for Youths Identified at Risk for Suicide by Trained Gatekeepers

Crisis ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Rodi ◽  
Lucas Godoy Garraza ◽  
Christine Walrath ◽  
Robert L. Stephens ◽  
D. Susanne Condron ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Service Access ◽  
Referral Patterns ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Lee Smith ◽  
Prevention Behavior ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
And Gender ◽  
To Receive

Background: In order to better understand the posttraining suicide prevention behavior of gatekeeper trainees, the present article examines the referral and service receipt patterns among gatekeeper-identified youths. Methods: Data for this study were drawn from 26 Garrett Lee Smith grantees funded between October 2005 and October 2009 who submitted data about the number, characteristics, and service access of identified youths. Results: The demographic characteristics of identified youths are not related to referral type or receipt. Furthermore, referral setting does not seem to be predictive of the type of referral. Demographic as well as other (nonrisk) characteristics of the youths are not key variables in determining identification or service receipt. Limitations: These data are not necessarily representative of all youths identified by gatekeepers represented in the dataset. The prevalence of risk among all members of the communities from which these data are drawn is unknown. Furthermore, these data likely disproportionately represent gatekeepers associated with systems that effectively track gatekeepers and youths. Conclusions: Gatekeepers appear to be identifying youth across settings, and those youths are being referred for services without regard for race and gender or the settings in which they are identified. Furthermore, youths that may be at highest risk may be more likely to receive those services.

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