Women voicing resistance [electronic resource] : discursive and narrative explorations / edited by Suzanne McKenzie-Mohr and Michelle N. Lafrance.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Women counter-storying their lives / Michelle N. Lafrance & Suzanne Mckenzie-Mohr -- 2. Language and stories in motion / Marjorie L. Devault -- 3. Beyond 'coming out' : lesbians' (alternative) stories of sexual identity told in post-apartheid South Africa / Alexandra Gibson & Catriona Macleod -- 4. Bodies talk : on the challenges of hearing childbirth counter-stories / Rachelle Joy Chadwick -- 5. Counter-storying rape : women's efforts toward liberatory meaning making / Suzanne Mckenzie-Mohr -- 6. "I used to think I was going a little crazy" : women's resistance to the pathologization of premenstrual change / Jane M. Ussher & Janette Perz -- 7. Talking against dominance : South African women resisting dominant discourse in narratives of violence / Floretta Boonzaier -- 8. "Oh it was good sex!" : heterosexual women's (counter)narratives of desire and pleasure in casual sex / Pantea Farvid -- 9. Depression as oppression: disrupting the biomedical discourse in women's stories of sadness / Michelle N. Lafrance -- 10. 'Girly-girls', 'scantily-clad ladies', and policewomen: negotiating and resisting femininities in non-traditional work space / Bridgette Rickett -- 11. Untangling emotional threads and self-management discourse in women's body talk / Catrina Brown -- 12. Women's discursive resistance : attuning to counter-stories and collectivizing for change / Suzanne Mckenzie-Mohr & Michelle N. Lafrance.