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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