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- Title
Pearls, pith, and provocation. Overcoming ambivalence: the challenges of exploring socially charged issues.
- Authors
Clarke LH
- Abstract
In this article, the author considers the challenges associated with the investigation of sensitive and socially charged issues. Drawing on a qualitative study of older women's body image and embodied experience, she discusses how societal ambivalence toward older women's bodies and appearances shapes and constrains the establishment of rapport between a young researcher and the study participants. Exploring the internalized anxiety expressed by the women, she investigates how life history narratives, multiple interviews, photographs, location of the interview, self-disclosure, information sharing, provision of assistance, student and stranger statuses, collaborative interviewing, and impression management combine to enhance rapport and ease the women's sense of discomfort.
- Publication
Qualitative Health Research, 2003, Vol 13, Issue 5, p718
- ISSN
1049-7323
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1177/1049732303013005009