Locating Community in Women's Experiences of Trauma, Recovery, and Empowerment

Abstract

Feminist interpretive methods informed our understanding of the role of the community and family-based services in women's trauma and recovery. Amy's story illustrates how trustworthy community relationships have a role in healing past experiences of isolation and points to the need for community supports to understand their power and responsibility to facilitate women's individual and family empowerment.

The Dissonant Duet: An Autoethnography of a Teacher-Student Relationship

“…For example, one of the most recurring topics in the research literature relate to the sexual abuse of women (Day, 2010a;Dougherty & Atkinson, 2006;Elsgray, 2014;Koelsch & Knudson, 2009;Mackie, 2009;Martin, 2011;Minge & Zimmerman, 2009;Sandoval, 2014) and children (Gilgun, 2004;Sethi, 2011;Staller, 2007;Thaller, 2012). Other studies have focused on the domestic violence (Bhattacharya, 2009;Ben-Ari, 2008;Jager & Carolan, 2009;Enosh & Buchbinder, 2005), domestic sexual abuse (Kirkland, 2004), abuse at workplaces (Vickers, 2002), and gender violence (Adams, 2006;Flecha, Pulido & Christou, 2011;Day, 2010b;Aubert, Melgar & Valls, 2011;Pelias, 2007;Rosiek & Heffernan, 2014). Taking the forms, contexts, and content of these studies into consideration, we believe we have captured ways of writing about teacher-learner relationships in music as well as a crucial aspect of teacher-student relationship that has been missing from the both music teaching literature and curriculum and pedagogy readings.…”