Women Voicing Resistance - Discursive and narrative explorations (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Women and Psychology
Release date:	March 2014
First published:	2014
Editors:	Suzanne McKenzie-Mohr • Michelle N. LaFrance
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	212
ISBN-13:	978-1-84872-103-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	1-84872-103-X
Barcode:	9781848721036

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