For more than three decades, Kathleen Cash has lived and worked with impoverished people, learning about their lives. Listening to them talk about their feelings of shame, Cash heard how people suffered from being unable to change what was happening to them--HIV infection, sexual and domestic violence, violence toward children, and environmental degradation. She saw that many interventions lacked emotional and cultural integrity and thus did little to alleviate these hardships. So Cash went outside the conventional approaches to health promotion and social justice and devised a community narrative practice, a strategy for engaging people through storytelling. From numerous ethnographic interviews, she pieced together cultural stories in a way that resonated with community people and revealed the paradoxes in their suffering. Cash recruited local artists to illustrate the stories in a form resembling a graphic novel and distributed these booklets for community discussion. (This book includes excerpts from these illustrated stories.) In Thailand, Bangladesh, Haiti, Uganda, and the United States, people learned to talk about forbidden subjects and say what they could never say before. They stood up to each other, reconciled, and made health-seeking decisions. By helping others, they repaired themselves. In cathartic conversations they acknowledged shame, which led to acts of courage and generosity.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN-13
9780826520517
eBay Product ID (ePID)
213543187
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Economic Sociology, Social Services
Author
Kathleen Cash
Publication Name
Sex, Shame, and Violence: a Revolutionary Practice of Public Storytelling in Poor Communities
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
254 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
254mm
Item Width
178mm
Item Weight
471g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Kathleen Cash
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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