Hey everyone,
I went to visit Claudia yesterday at her office and I am really excited about my project! I have decided that I am going to the conference and because of this am going to have to get my ass in gear. After our meeting, I got some clarification about what it was I needed to do exactly for this project. My friend is coming to see me with my mom and sister the weekend before spring break so hopefully I can interview her then. My roomate is going to college station this weekend to ask her bf (best friend not boy friend) if I can interview her. I am also going to make some flyers and distribute them around town (coffee shops, doctors offices, HEB, Walmart, Credit Union (?) to see if there is any one else that will let me interview them. I also am going to try to find a woman to follow around for a day or two to document her experience. It would be especially helpful if this woman happened to be going to the doctor and I could be there for that experience, though my being there may influence the outcome. I would tell the doctor, but not exactly what I was looking for until after, I would clarify specifically. This may be too much of a pain in the ass actually, as the doctor may be an ahole about it/think its a journalism/expose piece intended to crash the medical industry (which might be bad considering the state of the economy). That also may be super melodramatic. I am wanting to set aside a time to look up articles for my lit review but have to do ten hours of community service for parking in a fire lane. So, that's nice. Maybe I'll get that over Spring Break. This is my update.
Amanda
Savage Minds is dead! Long live anthro{dendum}!
7 years ago
Wow, sounds like you are doing well.
ReplyDeleteI have a few questions for you: how do you think putting up fliers might influence who you talk to? What kind of ladies would respond?
Also, is there a special age group you are thinking about studying? This may seem REALLY random, but my mom is convinced that pregnancy and child rearing has changed incredibly since her day. Women have a whole new perspective on life, identity, and the many other factors that tie into pregnancy. Do you think women now experience pregnancy differently than the generations before them? What might have changed? Has the general perception of doctors changed?
Good luck!
Okay so...
ReplyDeleteI don't know that putting up flyers would necessarily influence who I would talk to? How do you mean? Age wise? It would depend on where I put them. If I put them in a doctors office, many diff. pregnant women would see it, HEB, lots of variety, Cianfrannis - direct audience. I also think that the idea of intergenerational difference is very interesting as well. I want to talk to my mom and my aunt (my aunt's youngest is 5 years old and my dad's sister's youngest is no older than two or three). However, I don't know how much I can control for the age, given that this I will probably, especially if I put out flyers, have a large amount of variety in participants. I think also that the level of technology would certainly contribute to a different experience as well as the way in which women may speak about it. When my mom had me, I'm not sure who she would have talked about everything with but the same is true of my best friend who just had a child. But, I also like to talk about EVERYTHING I'm feeling to talk things out loud. I don't know if the general perception of doctors has changed but that would be a cool thing to find out, though I'm not sure how I would be able to measure that. These are fabulous questions. Thanks Alexis!