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.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2014

ISBN

9781136206559

Edition

Topic

Psychology

Subtopic

History & Theory in Psychology

Index

Psychology

Cover Page
Half-Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Women Counter-Storying Their Lives
Language and Stories in Motion
Beyond ‘Coming Out'
Bodies Talk
Counter-Storying Rape
“I Used to Think I Was Going A Little Crazy”
Talking Against Dominance
“Oh it Was Good Sex!”
Depression as Oppression
‘Girly-Girls', ‘Scantily-Clad Ladies’, and Policewomen
Untangling Emotional Threads And Self-Management Discourse In Women's Body Talk
Women's Discursive Resistance
Index