{"id":1031,"date":"2010-10-15T22:21:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T22:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edtechandtesol.info\/phd\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2010-10-15T22:21:09","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T22:21:09","slug":"bsa-autobiography-study-group-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=1031","title":{"rendered":"BSA Auto\/Biography Study Group Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Auto\/Biography Study Group is part of the professional association of sociologists, the British Sociological Association (BSA). The aim of the Study Group is to bring together people interested in looking analytically at all forms of biography and autobiography, the relationship between different \u2018genres\u2019 of representing lives, and the intertextuality of biography and autobiography, texts and lives. In addition to\u00a0 the main summer conference the Study Group also holds a one day conference in December. This year’s theme is ‘Feminism and Lives’<\/em><\/strong> and the conference takes place on\u00a014 December 2010 at the British Library in London.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I have just submitted the following\u00a0abstract and am hoping to find out shortly if my paper has been accepted. In the meantime (as always!) I would be very interested to hear your thoughts…\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Challenging regimes of truth: a feminist perspective <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>on the narrative study of women\u2019s lives <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Twenty years ago, as the crisis of representation <\/span><\/span><\/span>was first stalking the corridors of the social sciences, <\/span><\/span><\/span>Stanley asked whether there was such a thing as a <\/span><\/span><\/span>feminist auto\/biography. As a feminist engaged in <\/span><\/span><\/span>sociological biography, this is a question I am still <\/span><\/span><\/span>struggling to answer in and through the process of <\/span><\/span><\/span>narrative inquiry. Given its\u00a0potential to illuminate <\/span><\/span><\/span>lives hitherto hidden or silenced, narrative has found <\/span><\/span><\/span>favour with many feminist scholars, and in this paper <\/span><\/span><\/span>I explore both the spaces where narrative and feminism <\/span><\/span><\/span>happily co-exist, and those where tensions emerge, <\/span><\/span><\/span>drawing on my own work with female teachers in Yemen <\/span><\/span><\/span>over the last decade to illustrate. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Auto\/Biography Study Group is part of the professional association of sociologists, the British Sociological Association (BSA). The aim of the Study Group is to bring together people interested in looking analytically at all forms of biography and autobiography, the relationship between different \u2018genres\u2019 of representing lives, and the intertextuality of biography and autobiography, texts and lives. In addition to\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[29,43,92,180,216,223,240],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p865eh-gD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}