Hold on a minute, please can this debate be kept in some kind of
perspective!
Firstly, I hardly think Pauline is going to be jolted into giving up her
research on the basis of my personal opinion alone (and if she did my god
what power!) secondly, Pauline I did not say that your research was
worthless, far from it, those are your thoughts not mine and thirdly, please
don't try and tell me how I feel, you can't know how I feel. Ok that's that
out of the way.
<< Also, participants are also equipped with knowledge of assisting
Disability and women's organisations, and perhaps contact with these orgs may
go some way to hinder women individualising their experiences of disability
and dv.">>>
Great, this is just what we need to know and yet on the other hand, part of
the research process is to subject disabled women to discussions around
multiple definitions of their impairments, isn't that a process of
individualisation?
Seems like a wee bit of a contradiction here?
Pauline, I work in the same field as you, and as you know it is not easy
work. People will stigmatise you for the very fact that you dare to carry
out such work and you seem to have good support systems, which is crucial to
any type of work like this and I say, keep chipping away!
Because of the nature of the issues I am raising, I too have been
stigmatised. You have to be strong, you have to be able to take care of
yourself extremely well, you have to be able to jump through hoops, you have
to watch your back and sometime you have to remind yourself to see the funny
side of life! So you don't have to explain to me how difficult this type of
work is.
In summary Pauline, I was merely asking what the "direct benefits" are
within the research process, for the disabled women you are researching. I
am sorry but I don't think you have answered my question very clearly, for
example, do you support emancipatory research principles?
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