@article{ref1,
title="Overcoming Ambivalence: The Challenges of Exploring Socially Charged Issues",
journal="Qualitative health research",
year="2003",
author="Clarke, Laura Hurd",
volume="13",
number="5",
pages="718-735",
abstract="In this article, the author considers the challenges associated with the investigation of sensitive and socially charged issues. Drawing on a qualitative study of older women's body image and embodied experience, she discusses how societal ambivalence toward older women's bodies and appearances shapes and constrains the establishment of rapport between a young researcher and the study participants. Exploring the internalized anxiety expressed by the women, she investigates how life history narratives, multiple interviews, photographs, location of the interview, self-disclosure, information sharing, provision of assistance, student and stranger statuses, collaborative interviewing, and impression management combine to enhance rapport and ease the women's sense of discomfort.<p />",
language="",
issn="1049-7323",
doi="10.1177/1049732303013005009",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732303013005009"
}