Don’t I look scholarly? Don’t actually answer that it’s a purely subjective question. As you may or may not know (depending on if this is your first time here) I am currently in year 5 of my PhD and it’s time to get this show on the road. I still have a few requirements that I need to meet called comprehensive exams before I can start on my dissertation properly.
I am forever a PhD student and never a PhD candidate (you aren’t a candidate until you are in dissertation phase)
My future dissertation is tentatively titled “We Still Hide Mad Women in the Attic: An autoethnographic study of how disabled/mad women are treated when I try to take public space.
The dissertation will be an in depth autobiography of my life largely lived in both socially curated and physically forced isolation. My story will be juxtaposed with the real life stories of the mad women history hid away n attics or asylums. The story of hidden disabled and mad women now and in history would not be complete without an understanding of the mad woman in culture. Am I my own person or am I little more than Bertha Rochester raving in her attic for the sole purpose of creating the moral conundrum “is it wrong to cheat on one’s mentally ill wife” (the answer is yes by the way).
In order to complete this research I am going to need to do a lot of reading (of course). My preference for reading academically is to use kindle books on a iPad because it makes taking and organizing notes simple There are, however, a number of books that cannot be had in kindle format. To that end I have created an amazon wish list specific to the books that cannot be gotten in kindle format (I may add more later). That list is
Books I need for my book audit comprehensive exam that cannot be bought for kindle
I have created a similar list for my dissertation at large but the time frame for that isn’t as pressing
Dissertation Books not to found on Kindle
Unfortunately, ebooks are themselves not free and while the selection of academic books now available for kindle is growing but so is the price of ebooks. If you would like to help with my real book fund. You can send me an Amazon Gift Card to
kimberleyjanephd@gmail.com
(this is not my personal email, I will not be answering queries through it. Find me on Twitter if you want to talk)
You can also support me directly financially in a number of ways.
You can sponsor me for a monthly amount on patreon
If you are only able to make a one time contribution you can transfer money to my paypal
If you enjoy a little whimsy with you direct giving you can buy me a coffee (contributions must be in multiples of three uses paypal)
If you prefer to buy me something that would improve my quality of life
I have a disability accessibility wish list too
If the idea of using a third party site makes you uncomfortable, you can also send me an interac e money transfer direct from your bank account to the email,
kimberleyjanephd@gmail.com
All items and monies received will be used directly to fund my PhD, maintain the running of this blog and cover living expenses (can’t get a PhD if you are homeless and have no food).
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As always thank you for your support, I can’t wait to get into the meat of this dissertation. The stories of disabled people are important and far to often not told or worse, told by someone else.
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