Case Study

‘Livin’ on the Straights’: Identity, Desistance, and Work among Women Post-Incarceration

2011-2020, Case Study, Foreign, Gender, Newspaper Article/Feature, Social Development / By

This study explores how a group of women recently released from prison as parolees attempt to sustain their exit from deviant careers by constructing replacement selves. Contrary to traditional gendered scripts, these women view themselves as active participants in the world of work. Upon release not only do they desire to work to meet financial …

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‘Homes’ and being ‘at home’ in New Zealand: women’s place-making in internationalised higher education

2011-2020, Case Study, Economic Development, Foreign, Gender, Journal/Magazine/Review, Social Development / By

This article endeavours to address the relative inattention to gender in international education research and the invisibility of women whose partners are international students. It draws on data from interviews with 17 women involved in a broader doctoral research project during 2005 and 2006. The article uses ‘home’ as a lens for examining women’s situated …

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‘Heroines of their own romance’: Creative Exchanges between Life-Writing and Fiction, the ‘Scandalous Memoirists’ and Charlotte Lennox

2011-2020, Case Study, Foreign, Gender, Journal/Magazine/Review / By

This article examines the creative relationship between lives and stories and the intrinsic relationship between autobiography and fiction, with particular attention to the ‘scandalous memoirists’ of the mid-eighteenth century. By using the more flexible concept of life-writing, the article highlights the porous nature of genres at this time and the way in which strict categorisation …

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