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  <name><![CDATA[Jane Frances Gilgun]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[I'm a professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA.  My most recent book is I Want to Show You: A Memoir in Poems, published in May 2008. 

Written in imagist, lyric, and narrative styles, these poems convey the rhythms of a life fully lived--the sharp, often painful intrusions of beauty, the transcendence of erotic love, the fears and intrigue of bodily changes over time, the horror of violence, and the warmth and comfort of everyday life.

You can browse the entire book or buy it at http://www.lulu.com/content/2350136.

I also am the author of On Being a Shit: Unkind Deeds and Cover-Ups in Everyday Life, published in April 2008.  Inspired by Harry Frankfurt's bestseller On Bullshit and my own long-term research on violence, this book is a humorous look at a serious topic.

After years of interviewing violent felons, I saw that they have all kinds of ways of covering up their unkind deeds, including blaming others, acting innocent, playing on the sympathy of others.  I saw victims take the blame and suffer enormously for that.

After a while, I began to see that we all do unkind deeds and try to cover-up, at least sometimes.  After reading Harry Frankfurt's book, I decided to write my own.  Frankfurt is a philosopher and so he wrote a philosophical essay.  I am a researcher.  I therefore developed an testing a theory of being a shit.

You can browse the entire book at http://www.lulu.com/content/1151441. Or buy it for yourself or for your put-upon relatives and friends.  An ideal gift for that troublesome co-worker.  ]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Maxine Kumin, T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman ]]></influences>    <hometown>Wakefield, R.I.</hometown>  <born_at>07/30/1968</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Methods and Methodologies of Qualitative Family Research]]></title>
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