Feminist Narrative Research

Jo Woodiwiss is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Kate Smith is Research Fellow in the Centre for Applied Childhood, Youth and Family Research at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Kelly Lockwood is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Salford, UK.

Preface. Telling lives in feminist narrative inquiry; Liz Stanley.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Doing feminist narrative research; Jo Woodiwiss, Kate Smith and Kelly Lockwood.- Part I. Why feminist narrative research?.- Chapter 2. Challenges for feminist research – contested stories, dominant narratives and narrative frameworks; Jo Woodiwiss.- Chapter 3. Doing narrative research? Thinking through the narrative process; Tina Miller.- Chapter 4. The Listening Guide feminist method of narrative analysis: Towards a posthumanist performative (re)configuration; Natasha Mauthner.- Part II. Situating feminist narrative.- Chapter 5. Young Mothers’ Experiences of Relationship Abuse: Public Narratives, Personal Stories; Julia Langley.- Chapter 6. Listening to mum: narratives of mothers in prison; Kelly Lockwood.- Chapter 7. It’s My Party, I’ll Cry If I Want To: Interpreting Narratives of Childhood Sexual Abuse; Adele Jones and Hazel Da Breo.- Chapter 8. Women, asylum and resistance: A feminist narrative approach to making sense of stories; Kate Smith.- Chapter 9. Conclusion; Kelly Lockwood, Kate Smith and Jo Woodiwiss.