Ethics workshop on:
Ethical Issues in Literature and Document Based Research
Margaretta Jolly examined her statement to a funding body about the ethical implications
of her research on the history of contemporary letter writing practices in the women's
movement. She told a story about tricky relationships with letter writers, archivists,
journal editors and readers. Her story ended with a defence of using life writing materials
and methods in the public domain within an ethics of care, including, at times,
challenging the over-institutionalisation of humanities research.
A brief bibliography on ethics and life writing:
Jolly, Margaretta. "Censored/Uncensored: Lovers in Dialogue." Auto/Biography 12.2
(2004): 165-84.
Miller, Nancy K. "The Ethics of Betrayal: Diary of a Memoirist." The
Ethics of Life Writing. Ed. Paul John Eakin. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell
University Press, 2004. 148-60.
Friedman, Bonnie. Writing Past Dark : Envy, Fear, Distraction, and
Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life. 1st ed. New York: HarperCollins
Publishers, 1993.
Ethics and Institutions in Biographical Writing on Indonesian Subjects
David T. Hill , Life Writing, Volume 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 215 - 229
DOI: 10.1080/14484520701559752