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- Title
You Are Doing It Wrong: Voicing Child/Research Birthing Choices.
- Authors
Turner, Paaige K.
- Abstract
I, as have many other qualitative researchers, diligently report my demographics at the time I conduct and write my research in an effort to acknowledge that the researcher’s voice is part of the meanings he/she creates. While doing so acknowledges key elements of my positionality or research self, it invokes a modernist conceptualization of voice as stable and time as linear while simultaneously reifying social constructs of the body. In this article, I take up the question, “How can voice be partial while still contextually situated?” I present an introspective tale of the way my shifting self/body wrote my experiences of others’ births. Through the incorporation of flashbacks and flash forwards I offer an articulation of the folding nature of time as well as an exemplar of how the recognition of one’s own bodily experiences can engage the meanings present and absent as one works the limits of voice.
- Subjects
REFLEXIVITY; CHILDBIRTH; HUMAN voice; QUALITATIVE research; DEMOGRAPHIC surveys
- Publication
Qualitative Inquiry, 2011, Vol 17, Issue 9, p763
- ISSN
1077-8004
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1077800411423191