I read this when it came out and I wasn't too impressed. The author, I felt, drew too many conclusions from a small group (13) of subjects - mind you, she is by no means the only researcher to have done that! She spent a lot of time identifying the Welsh "Strong Woman"; this could have been useful but I felt it was something of an overplayed stereotype and that she had come to the study with certain presuppositions which she was eager to prove. In a later lecture, which I attended, she expanded this to Afro-Caribbean women. Having lived in West Africa for five years I felt that the comparison was not unhelpful. (That lecture, by the way, is the only time I've had any personal contact with Manon).
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ReplyDeleteI read this when it came out and I wasn't too impressed. The author, I felt, drew too many conclusions from a small group (13) of subjects - mind you, she is by no means the only researcher to have done that! She spent a lot of time identifying the Welsh "Strong Woman"; this could have been useful but I felt it was something of an overplayed stereotype and that she had come to the study with certain presuppositions which she was eager to prove. In a later lecture, which I attended, she expanded this to Afro-Caribbean women. Having lived in West Africa for five years I felt that the comparison was not unhelpful. (That lecture, by the way, is the only time I've had any personal contact with Manon).
ReplyDeleteI'm an author myself, so know what it takes to pull together a theological text. I'm guessing you've not read it, just here to mock?
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