Women voicing resistance : discursive and narrative explorations
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Women voicing resistance : discursive and narrative explorations
(Women and psychology)
Routledge, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Women counter-storying their lives / Michelle N. Lafrance & Suzanne McKenzie-Mohr
- Language and stories in motion / Marjorie L. DeVault
- Beyond 'coming out': lesbians' (alternative) stories of sexual identity told in post-apartheid South Africa / Alexandra Gibson & Catriona Macleod
- Bodies talk : on the challenges of hearing childbirth counter-stories / Rachelle Joy Chadwick
- Counter-storying rape : women's efforts toward liberatory meaning making / Suzanne McKenzie-Mohr
- "I used to think I was going a little crazy": women's resistance to the pathologization of premenstrual change / Jane M. Ussher & Janette Perz
- Talking against dominance : South African women resisting dominant discourse in narratives of violence / Floretta Boonzaier
- "Oh it was good sex!": heterosexual women's (counter)narratives of desire and pleasure in casual sex / Panteá Farvid
- Depression as oppression : disrupting the biomedical discourse in women's stories of sadness / Michelle N. Lafrance
- 'Girly-girls', 'scantily-clad ladies', and policewomen : negotiating and resisting femininities in non-traditional work space / Bridgette Rickett
- Untangling emotional threads and self-management discourse in women's body talk / Catrina Brown
- Women's discursive resistance : attuning to counter-stories and collectivizing for change / Suzanna McKenzie-Mohr & Michelle N. Lafrance
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Feminist scholars have demonstrated how 'dominant discourses' and 'master narratives' frequently reflect patriarchal influence, thereby distorting and depoliticizing women's storying of their own lives. In this groundbreaking volume a number of internationally recognized researchers, working across a range of disciplines, provide a detailed examination of women's attempts to counter-story their lives when prevailing discourses are unhelpful or, indeed, harmful. As such, it is an exploration of women's agency and resistance, which highlights the challenges and complexities of such discursive work.
The chapters explore women's resistance across a wide range of experiences, including: intimate partner violence, casual sex, depression, premenstrual change, disordered eating, lesbian identity, women's work in male-dominated spaces, rape, and child birth. Each chapter combines theoretical analyses with illuminating first-hand accounts, and elaborates practical implications that provide directions for individual and social change.
Providing an incisive and comprehensive exploration of discourse, oppression and resistance, that cuts across domains of women's everyday lives, Women Voicing Resistance will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners in the fields of psychology, gender studies, women's studies, sociology, and social work.
Table of Contents
1.Women counter-storying their lives, Lafrance & McKenzie-Mohr 2. Language and stories in motion, DeVault 3. Beyond 'coming out': Lesbians' (alternative) stories of sexual identity told in post-apartheid South Africa, Gibson & Macleod 4. Bodies talk: On the challenges of hearing childbirth counter-stories, Chadwick 5. Counter-storying rape: Women's efforts toward liberatory meaning making, McKenzie-Mohr 6. "I used to think I was going a little crazy": Women's resistance to the pathologization of premenstrual change, Ussher & Perz 7. Talking against dominance: South African women resisting dominant discourse in narratives of violence, Boonzaier 8. "Oh it was good sex!": Heterosexual women's (counter)narratives of desire and pleasure in casual sex, Farvid 9. Depression as oppression: Disrupting the biomedical discourse in women's stories of sadness, Lafrance 10. 'Girly-girls', 'scantilly-clad ladies' and policewomen: Negotiating and resisting femininities in non-traditional work space, Rickett 11. Untangling emotional threads and self-management discourse in women's body talk, Brown 12. Women's discursive resistance: Attuning to counter-stories and collectivizing for change, McKenzie-Mohr & Lafrance
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