Sometimes I Am Afraid: An Autoethnography of Resistance and Compliance

Authors

Paige Averett, East Carolina UniversityFollow
Danielle Soper, DaVita DialysisFollow

Abstract

Utilizing a feminist autoethnographic stance and method, this article is based upon the dialogues produced by a student completing an assignment for a social work instructor. Various tensions are explored, including the role of autoethnography in both qualitative and feminist research and the role of fear in a woman's life. A critique of the role of culture in the experience of fear as well as the student's use of autoethnography to resist and accept fear is explored. The uses of autoethnography for social workers are also discussed.

Keywords

Autoethnography, Fear, and Feminism

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Dr. Shelia Bunch, Director of the School of Social Work at East Carolina University for her encouragement to turn this class assignment into a manuscript for publication. The authors would also like to thank Sally St. George for being a dedicated co-creator of knowledge through the editorial process of this manuscript.

Publication Date

3-1-2011

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2011.1060

Recommended APA Citation

Averett, P., & Soper, D. (2011). Sometimes I Am Afraid: An Autoethnography of Resistance and Compliance. The Qualitative Report, 16(2), 358-376. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2011.1060