Women voicing resistance : discursive and narrative explorations /
Women voicing resistance : discursive and narrative explorations /
edited by Suzanne McKenzie-Mohr and Michelle N. Lafrance.
- xii, 212 pages ; 25 cm.
- Women and psychology .
- Women and psychology. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Women counter-storying their lives / Language and stories in motion / Beyond "coming out": lesbians' (alternative) stories of sexual identity told in post-apartheid South Africa / Bodies talk: on the challenges of hearing childbirth counter-stories / Counteer-storying rape: women's efforts toward liberatory meaning making / "I used to think I was going a little crazy": women's resistance to the pathologisation of premenstrual change / Talking against dominance: South African women resisting dominant discourse in narratives in violence / "Oh it was good sex!": heterosexual women's (counter) narratives of desire and pleasure in casual sex / Depression as oppression: disrupting the biomedical discourse in women's stories of sadness / 'Girly-girls','scantily-clad ladies', and police women: negotiating and resisting femininities in non-traditional work space / Untangling emotional threads and self-management discourse in women's body talk / Women's discursive resistance: attuning to counter-stories and collectivizing for change / Michelle N. Lafrance and Suzanne McKenzie-Mohr -- Marjorie L. DeVault -- Gibson & Catriona Macleod -- Joy Chadwick -- Suzanne McKenzie-Mohr -- Jane M. Ussher & Jannette Perz -- Floretta Boonzaier -- Pantea Farvid -- Michelle N. Lafrance -- Bridgette Rickett -- Catrina Brown -- Suzanne McKenzie-Mohr and Michelle N. Lafrance. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
"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."--Publisher's website.
184872103X 9781848721036 1848721048 9781848721043
2013037527
Women--Identity.
Women--Communication.
Women--Language.
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Storytelling--Social aspects
Feminism.
HQ1206 / .W8787 2014
305.42
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Women counter-storying their lives / Language and stories in motion / Beyond "coming out": lesbians' (alternative) stories of sexual identity told in post-apartheid South Africa / Bodies talk: on the challenges of hearing childbirth counter-stories / Counteer-storying rape: women's efforts toward liberatory meaning making / "I used to think I was going a little crazy": women's resistance to the pathologisation of premenstrual change / Talking against dominance: South African women resisting dominant discourse in narratives in violence / "Oh it was good sex!": heterosexual women's (counter) narratives of desire and pleasure in casual sex / Depression as oppression: disrupting the biomedical discourse in women's stories of sadness / 'Girly-girls','scantily-clad ladies', and police women: negotiating and resisting femininities in non-traditional work space / Untangling emotional threads and self-management discourse in women's body talk / Women's discursive resistance: attuning to counter-stories and collectivizing for change / Michelle N. Lafrance and Suzanne McKenzie-Mohr -- Marjorie L. DeVault -- Gibson & Catriona Macleod -- Joy Chadwick -- Suzanne McKenzie-Mohr -- Jane M. Ussher & Jannette Perz -- Floretta Boonzaier -- Pantea Farvid -- Michelle N. Lafrance -- Bridgette Rickett -- Catrina Brown -- Suzanne McKenzie-Mohr and Michelle N. Lafrance. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
"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."--Publisher's website.
184872103X 9781848721036 1848721048 9781848721043
2013037527
Women--Identity.
Women--Communication.
Women--Language.
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Storytelling--Social aspects
Feminism.
HQ1206 / .W8787 2014
305.42