Downs Why We Write

The Politics and Practice of Writing for Social Change
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-47759-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Downs, Jim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: When and Why We Enter
JIM DOWNS
Section I Why I Write: Personal Reflections
Chapter 1. Why I Write
JOHN D'EMILIO
Chapter 2. Why I Write
CATHERINE CLINTON
Chapter 3. Why I Write
TIMOTHY PATRICK MCCARTHY
Chapter 4. Why I Write
JENNIFER MORGAN
Section II The Process of Writing
Chapter 5. Disoriented in the Orient:

A U.S. Historian Goes Transnational
JUNG H. PAK
Chapter 6. Narratives of Sexual Conquest:

A Historical Perspective on Date Rape
JENNIFER FRONC
Chapter 7. Her Heart, My Hands:

Writing an Intimate Life
CAITLIN LOVE CROWELL
Chapter 8. Writing for History:

Journalism, History, and the
Revival of Narrative
JILL LEPORE
Chapter 9. "We Should Grow Too Fond of It'
Why We Love the Civil War
DREW GILPIN FAUST
Section III The Politics of Writing
Chapter 10. Our Silences Will Hurt Us: Journalistic
Writing in a Women's Prison
ELEANOR M. NOVEK AND REBECCA SANFORD
Chapter 11. To Keep My Body Clean, To Breathe,
To Give My Mind Rest
SASHA KAMINI PARMASAD
Chapter 12. Diary of a Mad Law Student
JODI BROMBERG
Chapter 13. A Drawbridge to the Ivory Tower: Brokering
the Politics of Environmental Studies
DANIEL J. SHERMAN
Chapter 14. Why I Don't Write
ERME C. MAULA
Notes
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jim Downs is in the Department of History at Columbia University. He is co-editor of Taking Back the Academy! History of Activism, History as Activism (Routledge 2004).