What discourse analysis reveals about elderly women, sex and the struggle with societal norms

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction to the book ix
4. Opening to the original contributions 1
5. Memories of mother 7
6. Commentaries
7. Blame it on psychology!? 27
8. Accidental cases 33
9. Politicising mothers 38
10. Socially organised use of memories of mother in narrative re-construction of problematic pasts 42
11. Response 51
12. Negotiating “normality” when IVF fails 61
13. Commentaries
14. IVF failure 83
15. When IVF fails — the success of science and medicine 91
16. On identifying counter-narratives of failed IVF 100
17. Response 105
18. Photographic visions and narrative inquiry 113
19. Commentaries
20. Photographs and counter-narratives 137
21. Hearing what is shown and seeing what is said 143
22. Show is tell 151
23. Response 159
24. “That’s very rude, I shouldn’t be telling you that” 169
25. Commentaries
26. Narratives as drawn-upon and narratives as occasioned 191
27. “But what’s at stake?” Older women talking about sexuality 199
28. What discourse analysis reveals about elderly women, sex and the struggle with societal norms 205
29. Response 213
30. White trash pride and the exemplary black citizen 221
31. Commentaries
32. Social identity work in storytelling 239
33. Talking and acting 245
34. The context of race in reading narratives on daytime talk shows 256
35. Day-time talk shows as a forum for social critique 263
36. Meta-narratives of cultural experience 270
37. Response 277
38. Charting the narrative unconscious 289
39. Commentaries
40. Discussing nonconscious processes involved in autobiography 307
41. Constructing the narrative unconscious 317
42. Possible lives 323
43. Working the narrative unconscious 333
44. Response 341
45. Considering counter narratives 351
46. Index 373