Considering Counter-Narratives

1. Introduction to the book (by Bamberg, Michael); 2. Opening to the original contributions: Counter-narratives and the power to oppose (by Andrews, Molly); 3. Memories of mother: Counter-narratives of early maternal influence (by Andrews, Molly); 4. Commentaries; 5. Blame it on psychology!? (by Kolbl, Carlos); 6. Accidental cases: Extending the concept of positioning in narrative studies (by Riessman, Catherine Kohler); 7. Politicising mothers: Counter-narratives of mothering experience (by Coombes, Leigh); 8. Socially organised use of memories of mother in narrative re-construction of problematic pasts (by Murakami, Kyoko); 9. Response (by Andrews, Molly); 10. Negotiating "normality" when IVF fails (by Throsby, Karen); 11. Commentaries; 12. IVF failure: Reproductive normativity and dealing with disappointment (by Tuffin, Keith); 13. When IVF fails - the success of science and medicine (by Crossley, Michele L.); 14. On identifying counter-narratives of failed IVF (by Bell, Susan E.); 15. Response: to commentaries on "Negociating Normality: When IVF Fails" (by Throsby, Karen); 16. Photographic visions and narrative inquiry (by Harrison, Barbara); 17. Commentaries; 18. Photographs and counter-narratives (by Poddiakov, Alexander); 19. Hearing what is shown and seeing what is said (by Chalfen, Richard); 20. Show is tell (by Rich, Michael); 21. Response: to commentaries on "Photographic visions and narrative inquiry" (by Harrison, Barbara); 22. "That's very rude, I shouldn't be telling you that": Older women talking about sex (by Jones, Rebecca L.); 23. Commentaries; 24. Narratives as drawn-upon and narratives as occasioned: Challenges in reconciling an emic and etic analysis (by Korobov, Neill); 25. "But what's at stake?" Older women talking about sexuality (by McLean Taylor, Jill); 26. What discourse analysis reveals about elderly women, sex and the struggle with societal norms (by Spreckels, Janet); 27. Response: to commentaries on "'That's very rude, I shouldn't be telling you that': Older women talking about sex" (by Jones, Rebecca L.); 28. White trash pride and the exemplary black citizen: Counter-narratives of gender, "race" and the trailer park in contemporary daytime television talk shows (by Squire, Corinne); 29. Commentaries; 30. Social identity work in storytelling: Methodological remarks (by Hausendorf, Heiko); 31. Talking and acting: Making change and doing development (by Valsiner, Jaan); 32. The context of race in reading narratives on daytime talk shows (by Johnson, Fern L.); 33. Day-time talk shows as a forum for social critique (by Pavlenko, Aneta); 34. Meta-narratives of cultural experience: Race, class, gender (by Thornborrow, Joanna); 35. Response: to commentaries on "White trash pride and the exemplary black citizen" (by Squire, Corinne); 36. Charting the narrative unconscious: Cultural memory and the challenge of autobiography (by Freeman, Mark); 37. Commentaries; 38. Discussing nonconscious processes involved in autobiography (by Mancuso, James C.); 39. Constructing the narrative unconscious (by Raskin, Jonathan D.); 40. Possible lives (by Brockmeier, Jens); 41. Working the narrative unconscious: Positioning theory and moral order (by Morgan, Mandy); 42. Response: to commentaries on "Charting the narrative unconscious: Cultural memory and the challenge of autobiography" (by Freeman, Mark); 43. Considering counter narratives (by Bamberg, Michael); 44. Index