Cindy Brooks Dollar

Gebundenes Buch

I Never Wanted to Be a Stereotype

A Sociologist's Narrative of Healing

Beschreibung

Trauma and its consequences are social phenomena. Coming from a working-class family and raised in a small, rural Southern area, this author's narrative offers a unique style of life history reporting whereby the author uses her academic standpoint to situate her life experiences in broader macro-social and cultural contexts. Weaving scholarship with personal narrative, the author highlights connections between self and social awareness, which is crucial, especially in a modern, Western context where the rhetoric of excessive individualism is prioritized. Discussing various issues, including objectification, violence, isolation, stigma, trauma, shame, integration, healing, peace, and love, she illustrates the application and significance of sociological knowledge to individual life. Many chapters include and conclude with excerpts from the author's diary entries, which she has maintained for over 30 years. These provide a relatively unfiltered glimpse into her personal and social consciousness throughout various life stages, including adolescence, teens, young and middle adulthood. The book closes with a summary of existing research on trauma and recovery, which often promotes the use of body-based therapies. The author argues that these findings have important implications for sociology given the body's symbolic socio-cultural status and how it is used to maintain existing inequalities and inequities, which (re)produce shared forms of trauma and differential access to recovery.

Autor

Cindy Brooks Dollar is Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from North Carolina State University. Her research on inequalities, control, stigma, and harm has been published in numerous sociology, criminology, and interdisciplinary journals and books.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 318436
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781433184369
• ISBN-10: 1433184362
• Artikelnr.: 60808793

Rezensionen

"Cindy Brooks Dollar ties together two threads in this book, who we are and who are we meant to be. She threads these questions through the lens of her own traps and visions of self over her life course-and equally through the prisms of social psychology, sociology, philosophy, and scholarship on pain, trauma, and bodies. The result is trail blazing, intensely personal, and scholarly." -Carol Stack, Author of All Our Kin and Call To Home and Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley