‘Le moment de la lune’. An auto-ethnographic tale of practice about menarche in a children’s hospital

Abstract

Points of tension in 'Normal spaces' are elaborated and I explain how 'Le moment de la lune' problematises supporting menarche in a children's hospital. Now practice has moved on with dedicated adolescent wards in all major children's hospitals. Nevertheless, occupational therapy practice around issues of menstrual self-management is still under-documented. Writing about unspoken moments of practice can have ethical implications for expanding the ways occupational therapy practice can be written and understood.

Autoethnography

“…My autoethnographic doctorate, entitled 'Writing the ordinary: Autoethnographic tales of an occupational therapist', comprised fictional tales of practice written in direct dialogue with selected publications from my body of work. These twice-told tales of sexuality, food and death contained vulnerable, embodied representations of moments of practice (Denshire, 2010(Denshire, , 2011a(Denshire, , 2011b.…”

O adeus de Augusto

“…of a researcher-artist in a state of near presence ABSTRACT: In this article, I intend to bring the investigative, practical and subjective movements constitutive of an auto-ethnographic work (DENSHIRE, 2011;ELLIS;BOCHNER, 2003) of a verbal dancer-linguist who proposes to document presences in varied everyday interactive situations. I will emphasize the work of researching autism from observation, immersion and registration with an autistic child institution.…”