Downs Why We Write

The Politics and Practice of Writing for Social Change
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-47752-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Zielgruppe

Academic/professional/technical: Undergraduate. Academic/professional/technical: Postgraduate. Academic/professional/technical: Research and professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Downs, Jim

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: When and Why We Enter

JIM DOWNS
Section I Why I Write: Personal Reflections
Chapter 1. Why I Write

JOHN D'EMILIO
Chapter 2. Why I Write

CATHERINE CLINTON
Chapter 3. Why I Write

TIMOTHY PATRICK MCCARTHY
Chapter 4. Why I Write

JENNIFER MORGAN
Section II The Process of Writing
Chapter 5. Disoriented in the Orient:

A U.S. Historian Goes Transnational
JUNG H. PAK
Chapter 6. Narratives of Sexual Conquest:

A Historical Perspective on Date Rape

JENNIFER FRONC
Chapter 7. Her Heart, My Hands:

Writing an Intimate Life

CAITLIN LOVE CROWELL
Chapter 8. Writing for History:

Journalism, History, and the
Revival of Narrative

JILL LEPORE
Chapter 9. "We Should Grow Too Fond of It'
Why We Love the Civil War

DREW GILPIN FAUST
Section III The Politics of Writing
Chapter 10. Our Silences Will Hurt Us: Journalistic
Writing in a Women's Prison

ELEANOR M. NOVEK AND REBECCA SANFORD
Chapter 11. To Keep My Body Clean, To Breathe,
To Give My Mind Rest

SASHA KAMINI PARMASAD
Chapter 12. Diary of a Mad Law Student

JODI BROMBERG
Chapter 13. A Drawbridge to the Ivory Tower: Brokering
the Politics of Environmental Studies

DANIEL J. SHERMAN
Chapter 14. Why I Don't Write

ERME C. MAULA
Notes

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jim Downs is in the Department of History at Columbia University. He is co-editor of Taking Back the Academy! History of Activism, History as Activism (Routledge 2004).