Description
Book SynopsisTrauma and its consequences are social phenomena. Coming from a working-class family and raised in a small, rural Southern area, this author''s narrative offers a unique style of life history reporting whereby the author uses her academic standpoint to situate her life experiences in broader macro-social and cultural contexts. Weaving scholarship with personal narrative, the author highlights connections between self and social awareness, which is crucial, especially in a modern, Western context where the rhetoric of excessive individualism is prioritized. Discussing various issues, including objectification, violence, isolation, stigma, trauma, shame, integration, healing, peace, and love, she illustrates the application and significance of sociological knowledge to individual life. Many chapters include and conclude with excerpts from the author's diary entries, which she has maintained for over 30 years. These provide a relatively unfiltered glimpse into her personal and social c
Trade Review
“Cindy Brooks Dollar ties together two threads in this book, who we are and who are we meant to be. She threads these questions through the lens of her own traps and visions of self over her life course—and equally through the prisms of social psychology, sociology, philosophy, and scholarship on pain, trauma, and bodies. The result is trail blazing, intensely personal, and scholarly.” —Carol Stack, Author of All Our Kin and Call To Home and Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
Table of Contents
What Is This? – Memories of Mine – Incitements from a Young Girl’s Mind – Tiptoeing Out … and Back In – On the Way Out, But Still Very Much In – I’m Ready for a Conclusion – No More: A Ritual – Whose Stereotype Is This? – Abstracting My Healing Processes – Final Thoughts – References – Index.
