Women Voicing Resistance - Discursive and narrative explorations (Electronic book text)

Feminist scholars have demonstrated how OCydominant discoursesOCO and OCymaster narrativesOCO frequently reflect patriarchal influence, thereby distorting and depoliticizing womenOCOs 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 womenOCOs attempts to counter-story their lives when prevailing discourses are unhelpful or, indeed, harmful. As such, it is an exploration of womenOCOs agency and resistance, which highlights the challenges and complexities of such discursive work.

The chapters explore womenOCOs resistance across a wide range of experiences, including: intimate partner violence, casual sex, depression, premenstrual change, disordered eating, lesbian identity, womenOCOs 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 womenOCOs everyday lives, "Women Voicing Resistance" will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners in the fields of psychology, gender studies, womenOCOs studies, sociology, and social work."