Negotiating identities: Inuit tuberculosis evacuees in the 1940s-1950s

[Homeopathic strategies: the Homeopathic League of Rio Grande do Sul in the 1940s and 1950s].

Although the period following 1930 has been considered an era in which homeopathy lost ground within academia, homeopaths nevertheless were advocating for their proposals in a variety of spaces. One such instance was represented by the Homeopathic League of Rio Grande do Sul, founded in 1941, which published a journal until the 1970s, set up three free dispensaries to serve the population in Po...

Negotiating identities in a heteronormative context.

Society prescribes a set model of heterosexual development toward a gender and sexual identity. Individuals with gender and sexual identities that do not conform to the prescribed heterosexual identities must essentially develop their own way, that is, they must privately negotiate their path through identity development and identity adoption. However, while negotiating their private reality, t...

The War on Books and Ideas: The California Library Association and Anti-Communist Censorship in the 1940s and 1950s

Negotiating multiple identities in a queer Vietnamese support group.

My participant-observation with O-Môi, a support group for Vietnamese lesbians, bisexual women and female-to-male transgenders, and interviews with members, focusing on how different identity issues are negotiated, suggest that despite O-Môi's claim of supporting its members' multiple marginalized identities, group processes in everyday pragmatic interactions construct a hierarchy that centers ...

Teachers’ Professional Knowledge Bases: Negotiating Pedagogic Identities in New Times

The theoretical models of teachers’ knowledge bases, as developed by Shulman (1987) and Turner-Bisset (1997, 1999), do not overtly support Elbaz’s (1983), Lampert’s (1984) and Nias’ (1989) earlier suppositions that a teacher’s knowledge of self influences their pedagogic work. A review of the empirical literature produced by Connell (1985), Sikes, Measor and Woods (1985), Weber and Mitchell (19...