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Disturbing bodies – reimagining comforting narratives of embodiment through feminist disability studies

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2015
The world responds to us because of our embodied selves, and we respond to the world through our embodiedness. Some bodies are admired, some are rejected. Some are perceived as normal, some as abnormal. Hence, bodily differences are not neutral facts. In
Carolin Ahlvik-Harju
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Ableism and the Life Stories of People with Disabilities

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2019
This paper investigates the narrative circulation of ableism. By drawing on anti-oppressive perspectives and narrative inquiry, this article argues that narrative circulation is crucial for understanding the performance and practice of ableism.
M. Tarvainen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Personal and parents' life stories in patients with borderline personality disorder.

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2019
Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) display disturbances in understanding self and others. We examined whether these disturbances extended to how patients described their personal and parents' life stories and to measures of identity ...
Majse Lind   +5 more
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Life Stories and Living Texts

open access: yesAnnali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale, 2018
This contribution deals with issues related to the use of oral sources in historical research carried out during times marked by high political tensions and it focuses on the case of contemporary Turkey.
De Sanctis, Carlotta
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Relationships among Personal Life Stories, Vicarious Life Stories about Mothers and Fathers, and Well-being

open access: yesIdentity. An International Journal of Theory and Research, 2019
We examined whether vicarious life stories about mothers and fathers differed in their relationships with personal life stories and well-being. Seventy-six emerging adults completed scales measuring well-being and described three chapters in their ...
D. Thomsen, A. Vedel
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Reading and Our Life Stories

open access: yesOpen Cultural Studies, 2018
This article addresses the topic of reading in the course of life. Its point of departure is the oral-history research carried out between 2009 and 2015 among 138 narrators (informants, respondents, interviewees) across the Czech Republic.
Trávníček Jiří
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Rethinking sexual agency: proposing a multicomponent model based on young people’s life stories

open access: yesSex Education : Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2018
Sexual health policies explicitly aim to encourage young people to take responsibility for their sexuality to prevent adverse outcomes such as unintended pregnancies, STIs and sexual assault.
M. Cense
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Abandoning the performance narrative: Two women's stories of transition from professional sport [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Despite its potential to illuminate psychological processes within socio-cultural contexts, examples of narrative research are rare in sport psychology. In this study, we employed an analysis of narrative to explore two women's stories of living in, and ...
Carless, D, Douglas, K
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Exploratory Study of Depressed Adolescents’ Life Narratives

open access: yesPsychologica Belgica, 2015
Objective: The aim of this study was to explore the life stories of depressive adolescents and compare them with non-clinical adolescents’ life stories.
Aurore Boulard
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The Importance of Individual Memories of Slovenian Emigrants When Interpreting Slovenian Emigration Processes

open access: yesArs & Humanitas, 2019
Slovenian emigration is often presented with a general overview in which general data and statistical facts prevail, while the individual experiences and memories of Slovenian emigrants are omitted from these descriptions.
Mojca Ilc Klun
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