
Women Voicing Resistance
Discursive and narrative explorations
By: Michelle N. Lafrance (Editor), Suzanne McKenzie-Mohr (Editor)
Paperback | 20 March 2014 | Edition Number 1
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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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'Suzanne Mckenzie-Mohr and Michelle La France have assembled a collection of brilliant feminist scholars dedicated to the task of curating the complex embroidery of women's tales of sexuality, depression, coming out, bodies, feeding, rape, pleasure and work. The volume provides an invitation to listen carefully as women try to speak in tongues that curdle our words and betray our affect. Yet within these stories there are also resistant strains which reveal a desire to speak and to challenge, to reveal and to resist.' - Michelle Fine, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
'This collection of essays offers a very rich contribution to the growing study of counter-narratives. In topics ranging from childbirth, to depression, to narratives of violence, the authors bring fine feminist scholarship with important theoretical and political insights to their examination of what makes some stories better - more empowering - than others, reframing dominant narratives in ways which demand a more nuanced way of listening to the stories women tell.' - Molly Andrews, Professor of Political Psychology, University of East London, UK
'Suzanne Mckenzie-Mohr and Michelle La France have assembled a collection of brilliant feminist scholars dedicated to the task of curating the complex embroidery of women's tales of sexuality, depression, coming out, bodies, feeding, rape, pleasure and work. The volume provides an invitation to listen carefully as women try to speak in tongues that curdle our words and betray our affect. Yet within these stories there are also resistant strains which reveal a desire to speak and to challenge, to reveal and to resist.' - Michelle Fine, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
'This collection of essays offers a very rich contribution to the growing study of counter-narratives. In topics ranging from childbirth, to depression, to narratives of violence, the authors bring fine feminist scholarship with important theoretical and political insights to their examination of what makes some stories better - more empowering - than others, reframing dominant narratives in ways which demand a more nuanced way of listening to the stories women tell.' - Molly Andrews, Professor of Political Psychology, University of East London, UK
"Bridging academic scholarship and practical living, this collection creates "counter-stories" of women's experiences including coming out, childbirth, sexual violence, and depression. Its global scope disrupts traditional dominant narratives. The volume is informative, creative, and liberating providing some good models for future acts of resistance." - The Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER)
ISBN: 9781848721043
ISBN-10: 1848721048
Series: Women and Psychology
Published: 20th March 2014
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 226
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 16.0 x 23.2 x 1.3
Weight (kg): 0.45
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