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Identities: gender and ethnicity Identity as story
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Identities: gender and ethnicity

Identity as story

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Life stories

• On and off, I've been very near a twelvemonth in the streets. Before that, I had to take care of a baby for my aunt. No, it wasn't heavy – it was only twelve months old; but I minded it for ever such a time – till it could walk. It was a very nice little baby, not a very pretty one; but if I touched it under the chin, it would laugh. Before I had the baby, I used to help mother, who was in the fur trade; and if there was any slits in the fur, I'd sew them up. My mother learned me to needlework and to knit when I was about five…

• (Quoted in Davin, 1996, p. 158)

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Life stories

• I wasn't a stranger to impairments because it had been born into my family, both my father and brother had impairments. Actually, my consciousness was from a very early age of really having to fight other people's voyeurism and curiosity. Me and my other brother used to pile in the noddy car with Andrew and we used to drive around. But when people used to stare at us when we went out together I used to say ‘What do you think you are staring at?’ Even as a kid I was on one level challenging people's behaviour towards disabled people even though I wasn't a disabled person at that time.

• (Quoted in Campbell and Oliver, 1996, p. 36)

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a sense of self-identity is often securely enough held to weather major tensions or transitions in the social environments within which the person moves’.

(Giddens, 1991, p. 55).

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… your own culture, your own language, your own communality which you shared with your forebears – is actually shaping the future, too. It's people without a sense of the past who are alienated and rootless, and they're losers; they lose out.To make any political statement you first of all have to know who and what you are; what shaped your life, what is possible and what isn't. That's not nostalgia. That's a kind of grappling with the past – an ache for it, perhaps sometimes a contempt for it. But the past commingles with everything you do and everything you project forward.

(Quoted in Fuller, 1993, p. 23)

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Mother: Do you remember being on this beach? Paul: yuk, no. Mother: don't you, when we went to Jersey, on the aeroplane, do you not remember that? Paul: is that Jersey? Mother: mm, look Rebecca's wearing a hat that says Jersey on it Paul: look, what is that? Mother: […] probably a book – we were going to go on that boat or a trip down the river and we took one or two books to keep you two occupied. (Middleton and Edwards, 1990, p. 40)

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Marjorie: After 20 years we changed over, and it was Sister ‘Smith’ Godfrey: Was she on the children's ward? Marjorie: She was on F2. And then we had ‘Moffat’. She was on Fl. She died in the end Godfrey: She was a wicked old devil, she was! No wonder she died! Marjorie: Old devil? Godfrey: Yes! Marjorie: You're telling me! And Smith!

(Atkinson, 1997, p. 65)

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Summary so far …

• Giving attention to memories means sharing and recognising aspects of each other's lives and perhaps acknowledging and understanding differences in experience.

• Memories help to make public accounts which enlighten and serve to raise awareness of hidden or stigmatised experience.

• Encouraging people to talk about the past can be a way of helping them to manage change in their lives and establish identity in the present.

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Life story work

While you are listening, note down:

some of the things Jamie mentions collecting for his life story book

some of the feelings and emotions he and Sarah mention while they were making the book.

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Life story work can increase a child's sense of self-esteem, because, sadly, at the back of the minds of nearly all children separated from their families of origin is the thought that they are worthless and unlovable. They blame themselves for the actions of adults.

(Ryan and Walker, 1999, p. 6)

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Make notes about some of the basic principles they advocate as essential for this work

how many of these principles would you say apply only to work with children and young people?

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1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol–that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact

nature of our wrongs.6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make

amends to them all.9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do

so would injure them or others.10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly

admitted it.11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact

with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

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These Twelve Steps contain the following problematic terms and phrases: admitted, powerless, lives had become unimaginable, restore, sanity, will, lives, care of God, as we understand him, searching, fearless, moral inventory, admitted to God, exact nature, wrongs, entirely ready, remove, defects of character, humbly, shortcomings, persons we had harmed, make amends, injure, personal inventory, wrong, prayer, meditation, conscious contact, pray, knowledge of his will for us, power to carry that out, spiritual awakening, carry this message, practice these principles in all our affairs. (Denzin1987: 45)

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