Investigating Subjectivity

Much has been missed by social researchers in their attempt to understand the human experience as a series of rational, cognitive choices. Human subjectivity in lived experience, both that of the subject and that of the researcher, is the topic of this volume, an important corrective to the detached stance of most previous social research. The contributors examine various aspects of the subject - the emotions, the gendered nature of experience, the body-mind relationship, perceptions of time, place and setting, understanding of the self - and explore how these elements provide a fuller understanding of the human condition.

An Agenda for the Interpretation of Lived Experience - Carolyn Ellis and Michael G Flaherty PART ONE: INTERPRETING TEXTS The Many Faces of Emotionality - Norman K Denzin Reading Persona Archival Research in Intertextual Analysis - Laurel Graham Four Representations of a Year in the Life of Dr Lillian Moller Gilbreth Women's Subjectivity and Feminist Stories - Bronwyn Davies PART TWO: CREATING TEXTS Telling and Performing Personal Stories - Carolyn Ellis and Arthur Bochner the Constraints of Choice in Abortion The Reflexive Self through Narrative - Carol Rambo Ronai A Night in the Life of an Erotic Dancer/Researcher The Consequences of Poetic Representation - Laurel Richardson Writing the Other, Re-Writing the Self PART THREE: EXPERIENCING SUBJECTIVITY The Erotics of Hermeneutics of Temporality - Michael G Flaherty Wild Life - Gary Alan Fine Authenticity and the Human Experience of 'Natural' Places The Trail Through Experience - Mark Neuman Finding Self in the Recollection of Travel RT FOUR TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE SELF Extraordinary Events and Mundane Ailments - Virginia Olesen The Contextual Dialectics of the Embodied Self The Self, Its Voices, and Their Discord - John Gagnon

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