Table of contents
Introduction to the bookix
Opening to the original contributions: Counter-narratives and the power to oppose
Memories of mother: Counter-narratives of early maternal influence
Commentaries
Accidental cases: Extending the concept of positioning in narrative studies
Politicising mothers: Counter-narratives of mothering experience
Socially organised use of memories of mother in narrative re-construction of problematic pasts
Negotiating “normality” when IVF fails
Commentaries
IVF failure: Reproductive normativity and dealing with disappointment
When IVF fails — the success of science and medicine
On identifying counter-narratives of failed IVF
Response: to commentaries on "Negociating Normality: When IVF Fails"
Photographic visions and narrative inquiry
Commentaries
Photographs and counter-narratives
Hearing what is shown and seeing what is said
Response: to commentaries on "Photographic visions and narrative inquiry"
“That’s very rude, I shouldn’t be telling you that”: Older women talking about sex
Commentaries
Narratives as drawn-upon and narratives as occasioned: Challenges in reconciling an emic and etic analysis
“But what’s at stake?” Older women talking about sexuality
What discourse analysis reveals about elderly women, sex and the struggle with societal norms
Response: to commentaries on "'That's very rude, I shouldn't be telling you that': Older women talking about sex"
White trash pride and the exemplary black citizen: Counter-narratives of gender, “race” and the trailer park in contemporary daytime television talk shows
Commentaries
Social identity work in storytelling: Methodological remarks
Talking and acting: Making change and doing development
The context of race in reading narratives on daytime talk shows
Day-time talk shows as a forum for social critique
Meta-narratives of cultural experience: Race, class, gender
Response: to commentaries on "White trash pride and the exemplary black citizen"
Charting the narrative unconscious: Cultural memory and the challenge of autobiography
Commentaries
Discussing nonconscious processes involved in autobiography
Constructing the narrative unconscious
Working the narrative unconscious: Positioning theory and moral order
Response: to commentaries on "Charting the narrative unconscious: Cultural memory and the challenge of autobiography"
Considering counter narratives
Index
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