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Woman and persona performance / Kim Jaime Barbour.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barbour, Kim, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Women--Psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 159 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
- Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Chapter 1: Women, Personas and Experiences of Self
- Who Counts as a Woman?
- Personas and Their Production
- The Woman Role
- Women's Personas in Context
- References
- Chapter 2: Mothers
- On Mothers
- Research Methods and Ethical Considerations
- The Mother-Persona
- Mother as Identity
- Mothering as Behaviour
- Mothering as Situational
- Mothering as Relational
- Maternal Behaviour and Valuing Mothering
- Chapter 3: Hairdressers
- Caring For and About Hair
- Research Methodology
- The Stylists
- The Intimacy of Personal Care
- Complexities of Expertise
- Reading People
- Sharing and Oversharing
- Client Interactions
- Hairdressing and Persona Performance
- Chapter 4: Software Engineers
- A Persistent Minority
- Software Engineering and Gender: A Short History
- Software Engineering and the Place of Women
- Becoming a Software Engineer: 'It Was Always That the Entire Time'
- Attractions and Rewards: 'To Actually Sit There and Solve Problems for a Living'
- Workplace Culture: 'It's Just the Vibe, This Modern Vibe That I Like'
- Gender and the Workplace: 'Not a Very Feminine Woman'
- Persona Performance and Software Engineering
- Chapter 5: Activists
- Imagining Activists
- Online Activism
- The Capacity to Be an Activist
- Character Performances and Holistic Selves
- Considering the Audience
- Speaking Across Issues
- Activism and Platform Specificities
- Activist Personas
- Chapter 6: Online Community Managers
- Conceptualising Community
- Pre-digital Community
- Early Online Social Spaces
- Facilitating Online Communities
- Nadine: 'Very Low-Key Lead by Example'
- 'There Is Compassion Fatigue in Doing What We Do'
- 'It's Not Just Bad Guys and Good Guys'
- Heidi: 'Get Rid of All the Chasers'
- 'Learn from Me'
- Safer Group Experiences
- Creating Spaces for Others to Flourish: The Admin Persona
- Chapter 7: Minecraft YouTubers
- Finding Minecraft YouTube
- Theorising Minecraft Let's Plays
- Minecraft and Gender
- Gendered Performances: Women on Minecraft
- Being a Minecraft YouTuber: 'There Are a Lot of Men in My Comments'
- Chapter 8: Women's Personas
- Positioning Women and Persona Performance
- Persona Intersections
- On Exhaustion and Hope
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 3, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9783031331527
- 3031331524
- Publisher Number:
- 99994356278
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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