Identities in the Lesbian World, The Social Construction of Self

1980 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verta A. Taylor ◽  
Barbara Ponse ◽  
Donna M. Tanner ◽  
Deborah Goleman Wolf ◽  
Sasha Gregory Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Construction Of Self

Narrative practices and the social construction of self in childhood

1990 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
PEGGY J. MILLER ◽  
RANDOLPH POTTS ◽  
HEIDI FUNG ◽  
LISA HOOGSTRA ◽  
JUDY MINTZ
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Construction Of Self

Gender, Class and Epistolary Suffering: Narrating the Bodily Self in Women‘s Medical Consultation Letters to Samuel-Auguste Tissot

2014 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-161
Author(s):  
Sonja Boon
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
The Body ◽  
Medical Consultation ◽  
Bodily Experience ◽  
Archival Collection ◽  
The Social ◽  
Construction Of Self ◽  
Autobiography Studies ◽  
Selection Of

In this article I use conceptual frames drawn from autobiography studies and feminist theory to examine the relationships between bodily experience and the social construction of sex, gender and class as they play themselves out in a selection of womens medical consultation letters written to the eminent Swiss physician, Samuel-Auguste Tissot, during the second half of the eighteenth century. My analysis of a selection of consultation letters - all of which are situated and read in the context of a rich archival collection of some 1,200 letters - considers the role that bodily experience plays in the construction of self and suggests that not only the experience, but also the textual articulation of the body, were imagined both through and against accepted understandings of sex, gender and class during this period.

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