Lying Down Anyhow: An Autoethnography. (March 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Crow, Liz
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 20:Number 3(2014)
• Page Start: 359
• Page End: 361
• Publication Date: 2014-03
• Subjects: autoethnography -- counter-narrative -- lying down -- disability -- courage; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800413489531
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

Where lying down is a simple physiological act, lying down among people is a far more complicated thing. When my own body requires me either to lie down in public places or absent myself from the social world, I face complicated questions about who I am and who I want to be in a world where I do not conform. Interweaving diaries and memory with conversation, observation, secondary research, and reflection, this autoethnographic text is a celebration of the rebel body and of a search for a more curious way of being. Unfolding a collective need for courage to break rules that cry out to be broken, Lying Down Anyhow begins with my body but is, more truthfully, a tale for every body.