ISBN:
9781848721036
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (225 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Women and Psychology
Parallel Title:
Print version Women Voicing Resistance : Discursive and narrative explorations
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 wo
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Women counter-storying their lives; 2 Language and stories in motion; 3 Beyond 'coming out': lesbians' (alternative) stories of sexual identity told in post-apartheid South Africa; 4 Bodies talk: on the challenges of hearing childbirth counter-stories; 5 Counter-storying rape: women's efforts toward liberatory meaning making; 6 "I used to think I was going a little crazy": women's resistance to the pathologization of premenstrual change
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Talking against dominance: South African women resisting dominant discourse in narratives of violence8 "Oh it was good sex!": heterosexual women's (counter)narratives of desire and pleasure in casual sex; 9 Depression as oppression: disrupting the biomedical discourse in women's stories of sadness; 10 'Girly-girls', 'scantily-clad ladies', and policewomen: negotiating and resisting femininities in non-traditional work space; 11 Untangling emotional threads and self-management discourse in women's body talk
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Women's discursive resistance: attuning to counter-stories and collectivizing for changeIndex
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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