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...

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...