Resources
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
BOOKS
Lives on the Line: The Birth of the Clothesline Project, A Movement to End Violence Against Women
Citation: Carey-Harper, Rachel, (1995) Lives on the Line: The Birth of the Clothesline Project, A Movement to End Violence Against Women (unpublished manuscript).
by Rachel Carey-Harper| 1995, edited 2023
Introduction
Someday every female child born into this world will be guaranteed a life completely safe from rape, completely safe from incest and sexual child abuse, completely safe from domestic violence and murder at the hands of someone who supposedly loves them. Someday every female child born into this world will be guaranteed a life completely free of sexist discrimination and oppression. Someday every female child born into this world will be guaranteed a life of respect, dignity, and influence. Someday we will bring an end to violence against women.
Challenging Global gender Violence.
Citation: Rose, Susan (2014). Challenging global gender violence. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
by Susan Rose| 2014
Synopsis
Challenging Global Gender Violence provides a qualitative and comparative analysis of women’s experiences of violence, healing, and action across cultures. Gender violence is the most pervasive human rights violation affecting women and children across both the developed and developing world. While the specific cultural contexts and acts of violence vary, the feelings that women express about their experiences of abuse are strikingly similar.
Materializing Silence in Feminist Activism
Citation: Corey, Jessica Rose (2021) Materializing Silence in Feminist Activism. Palgrave Macmillan
by Jessica Rose Corey (Author)| 2021
Synopsis
This book examines how rhetorically effective uses of silence and materiality mediate feminist activism and discusses the implications of these dynamics for pedagogy. Specifically, the text establishes a theoretical foundation for what the author terms “psychosocial composing,” or “the metaphorical composing and revising of individual participants and society, and the contribution of written and visual texts as an input and output of the relationships between individuals and social culture.” This idea is examined through primary research on the Clothesline Project, an international event that invites people who have experienced gender violence (directly or indirectly) to decorate tee shirts that get hung on clotheslines in public places. Through looking at values and roles of silence in global cultures and the use of material arts in activist efforts, the author argues for the unique value of silence and materiality in individual and collective spaces. The manuscript includes discussion questions and sample teaching materials. Overall, making connections among composition and rhetoric, psychology, sociology, politics, women’s studies, art and design, pedagogy, and history, this book further demonstrates the potential interdisciplinary approaches to rhetoric and communication.
Framing identities: Autobiography and the politics of pedagogy
Citation: Hesford, W. S. (1999). Framing identities: Autobiography and the politics of pedagogy. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
by Wendy S. Hesford | Jan 15, 1999
Synopsis
Within the context of Oberlin, a small liberal arts college in Ohio, this book looks at the uses of autobiographical practices in empowering groups traditionally marginalized in academic settings. Investigating the process of self-representation and the social, spatial, and discursive frames within which academic bodies and identities are constituted, Framing Identities explores the use of autobiographical acts in terms of power, influence, risks involved, and effectiveness.
Agonistics: Thinking the World Politically
Citation: Mouffe, C. (2013). Agonistics: Thinking the world politically. NY: Verso.
by Chantal Mouffe (Author)| 2013
Synopsis
Political conflict in our society is inevitable, and its results are often far from negative. How then should we deal with the intractable differences arising from complex modern culture?
Teaching to Transcend: Educating Women Against Violence.
Citation: Sattler, Cheryl L. (2000). Teaching to transcend: Educating women against violence. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press
by Cheryl L. Sattler (Author)| 2000
Synopsis
Teaching to Transcend explores a particular kind of safe space for the education of women: domestic violence shelters. Women in shelters are literally taught concepts from self-worth to financial management, parenting, and feminist values of equality and rights. They also learn more subtly through counseling, interaction, and affirmation of their own stories and survival. The ways in which women in shelters are educated are based upon the concepts of feminist pedagogy, such as intent listening, empowering voice, and radical social action. Teaching to Transcend expands both the concept of feminist spaces and feminist pedagogy and our understanding of the connections between education and politics (particularly the political economy of social knowledge) and non-school-based education spaces.”
(In-depth discussion of The Clothesline Project on pages 67-79
Parallaxic Praxis: Multimodal Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Research Design.
Citation: Sameshima, Pauline; Maarhuis, Patricia & Wiebe, Sean. (Eds.). (2019). Parallaxic praxis: Multimodal interdisciplinary pedagogical research design. Wilmington, DE, USA: Vernon Press.
by Pauline Sameshima (Author), Patricia Maarhuis (Author), Sean Wiebe (Author)| 2019
Synopsis
Parallaxic Praxis is a research framework utilized by interdisciplinary teams to collect, interpret, transmediate, analyze, and mobilize data generatively. The methodology leverages the researchers’ personal strengths and the collective expertise of the team including the participants and community when possible. Benefits include the use of multi-perspective analyses, multi-modal investigations, informal and directed dialogic conversations, innovative knowledge creation, and models of residual and reparative research. Relying on difference, dialogue, and creativity propulsion processes; and drawing on post-qualitative, new materiality, multiliteracies, and combinatorial, even juxtaposing theoretical frames; this model offers extensive research possibilities across disciplines and content areas to mobilize knowledge to broad audiences.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Voices from the Line: The Clothesline Project as Healing Text
Chapter within: Writing and Healing Toward an Informed Practice Refiguring English Studies
by Charles M. Anderson & Mariam M. MacCurdy
Citation: Julier, Laura (2000). Voices from the line: The Clothesline Project as healing text. In C. M. Anderson & M. M. MacCurdy (Eds.), Writing and healing: Toward an informed practice (p. 357–384). Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.
Chapter by Laura Julier | 2000
Synopsis
“This book presents 15 essays composed by and directed toward writing teachers and others who have experienced writing and healing in a variety of settings–from classrooms to substance-abuse treatment centers to AIDS support groups. Essays in the book provide not only descriptions of particular practices but also explorations of areas of theory that support the development of techniques in healing.”
Materializing the Punctum: A Poetic Study of the Washington State University Clothesline Project
Chapter within: Poetic inquiry II: Seeing, caring, understanding. Rotterdam, the Netherlands: Sense.
by Kathleen Galvin & Monica Prendergast
Citation: Maarhuis, P., & Sameshima, P. (2016). Materializing the punctum: A poetic study of the Washington State University Clothesline Project. In K. Galvin & M. Prendergast (Eds.), Poetic inquiry II: Seeing, caring, understanding. Rotterdam, the Netherlands: Sense.
Chapter by Pauline Sameshima and Patricia Maarhuis | 2016
Synopsis
Naming and claiming: The integration of traumatic experience and the reconstruction of self in survivors’ stories of sexual abuse.
Chapter within: Chapter within: Trauma Life Stories of Survivors
By Selma Leydesdor
Citation: Rose, S. (1999). Naming and claiming: The integration of traumatic experience and the reconstruction of self in survivors’ stories of sexual abuse. In K. L. Rogers & S. Leydesdorff (Eds.), Memory and narrative (pp. 159–178). London: Routledge.
Synopsis
“This book presents 15 essays composed by and directed toward writing teachers and others who have experienced writing and healing in a variety of settings–from classrooms to substance-abuse treatment centers to AIDS support groups. Essays in the book provide not only descriptions of particular practices but also explorations of areas of theory that support the development of techniques in healing.”
That Will Never Be Me: A Narrative Inquiry on Empowerment and Violence against Women from the Clothesline Project
Chapter within: Communicating prejudice : an appreciative inquiry approach..
by Karen Sorensen-Lang
Citation: Camara, Sakile Kai and Drummond, Darlene K “Communicating prejudice : an appreciative inquiry approach.” Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2016.
Chapter by Karen Sorensen-Lang | 2016
Synopsis
Prejudice is a significant social issue that the human race continues to face in the world today, and it is destructive and costly for social encounters. The increase of these social obstacles suggests that an intervention or collection of strategies are needed and necessary to break down prejudice barriers that divide communities of people.
THE CLOTHESLINE PROJECT (pp. 49-49)
Chapter within: Where She Always Was
By Frannie Lindsay
Citation: Lindsay, Frannie, “Where She Always Was” (2004). Swenson Poetry Award Winners. 11.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/swenson_awards/11
Synopsis
THE CLOTHESLINE PROJECT*
* The Clothesline Project pays tribute to survivors of sexual violence. Survivors and
their loved ones write their stories on tee-shirts, different colors signifying different circumstances. These are displayed on a clothesline for one week in April.
Thirty-five women tear off
their shirts. Now they can wash their bodies
back into the hot single bedroom at three
in the morning, the air from the alley
the moon avoided, the rank palm
clamped over the mouth, the six hours
it took trying to want to
live with each spent sinew,
the approximate height and the scrape
of the hair and the scar and the slant
of the laugh remembered
down to a raw valentine.
Thirty-five wide-awake
flags of the all-night sky
wave unabashed at noon, safe wings
grazing the shoulders
of women who without touching
help each other
get up, get dressed, stay dirty,
and write their names all over their clothes
in the blood of the husband, the father,
the other who keeps their breath
on the splinter of mirror
in his hip pocket.
Then again, underneath
on skin still tender: in the same brash red
of the roses that rage into bloom
even though someone still strips them
of every last thorn.
