Navigating Multiple Identities

Race, Gender, Culture, Nationality, and Roles
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-973207-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 442 g

Although questionnaires routinely ask people to check boxes indicating if they are, for example, male or female, black or white, Hispanic or American, many people do not fit neatly into one category or another. Identity is increasingly organized multiply and may encompass additional categories beyond those that appear on demographic questionnaires. In addition, identities are often fluid and context-dependent, depending on the external social factors that invite
their emergence. Identity is constantly evolving in light of changing environments, but people are often uncomfortably fixed with societal labels that they must include or resist in their individual identity definition.

In our increasingly complex, globalized world, many people carry conflicting psychosocial identities. They live at the edges of more than one communal affiliation, with the challenge of bridging different loyalties and identifications. Navigating Multiple Identities considers those who are navigating across racial minority or majority status, various cultural expectations and values, gender identities, and roles. The chapters collected here by Josselson and Harway explore the ways in
which individuals attain or maintain personal integration in the face of often shifting personal or social locations, and how they navigate the complexity of their multiple identities.

Zielgruppe

Graduate and undergraduate students in psychology, sociology, and cultural studies, as well as professionals who conduct multicultural training.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Josselson, Ruthellen

Harway, Michele

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Sozialisation, Soziale Interaktion, Sozialer Wandel
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1
The Challenges of Multiple Identity
Ruthellen Josselson and Michele Harway
Chapter 2
Multiple Identities and Their Organization
Gary S. Gregg
Chapter 3
The "We of Me": Barack Obama's Search for Identity
Ruthellen Josselson
Chapter 4
The Varieties of the Masculine Experience
Kate A. Richmond, Ronald F. Levant, and Shamin C. J. Ladhani
Chapter 5
Growing Up Bicultural in the United States: The Case of Japanese-Americans
James Fuji Collins
Chapter 6
The Multiple Identities of Feminist Women of Color: Creating a New Feminism?
Janis Sanchez-Hucles, Alex Dryden, and Barbara Winstead
Chapter 7
The Multiple Identities of Transgender Individuals: Incorporating a Framework of Intersectionality to Gender Crossing
Theodore R. Burnes and Mindy Chen
Chapter 8
A Garden for Many Identities
Suzanne Ouellette
Chapter 9
"I Am More (Than Just) Black": Contesting Multiplicity Through Conferring and Asserting Singularity in Narratives of Blackness
Siyanda Ndlovu
Chapter 10
Identities in the First Person Plural: Muslim-Jewish Couples in France
Brian Schiff, Mathilde Toulemonde, and Carolina Porto
Chapter 11
Identity Wounds: Multiple Identities and Intersectional Theory in the Context of Multiculturalism
Michal Krumer-Nevo and Menny Malka
Chapter 12
Evaluation of Cultural and Linguistic Practices: Constructing Finnish-German Identities in Narrative Research Interviews
Sara Helsig
Chapter 13
"Because I'm Neither Gringa nor Latina": Conceptualizing Multiple Identities Within Transnational Social Fields
Debora Upegui-Hernandez

Über Autor(innen)

Ruthellen Josselson is Professor in the School of Psychology at Fielding Graduate University. She is also a psychotherapist in private practice and Co-Director of the Irvin D. Yalom Institute for Psychotherapy. Dr. Josselson was formerly Professor of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Visiting Professor at Harvard University, and Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University. She has published many articles about narrative research as a form of inquiry, and
she co-edited eleven volumes of The Narrative Study of Lives series. She is a founder of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology. Her research focuses on women's identity and on human relationships. She has received the Henry A. Murray Award and the Theodore R. Sarbin Award from the
American Psychological Association, as well as a Fulbright Fellowship.

Michele Harway is Professor in the School of Psychology at Fielding Graduate University. She is the founding chair of the clinical psychology doctoral program at Antioch University, and until recently, a member of its core faculty. She also maintains a small private practice in Westlake Village, California, where she specializes in couples and family psychology and working with trauma survivors. She is board certified in Couples and Family Psychology (American Board of Professional Psychology).
Dr. Harway has authored or edited ten books and many book chapters and journal articles, and has presented at numerous professional conferences on couples therapy, cultural issues, domestic violence, trauma survival, and gender and family issues.