Cover -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Introduction to the book -- Opening to the original contributions -- References -- Memories of mother -- Motherhood and its discontents -- Helen: The fight to be free -- Ann: Frustrations and radical thinking -- Joe: Motherhood and sacrifice -- Peter: ''She had that gift'' -- Narrative psychology and social resistance -- References -- Commentaries -- Blame it on psychology!? -- References -- Accidental cases: Extending the concept of positioning in narrative studies -- References -- Politicising mothers: Counter-narratives of mothering experience -- References -- Socially organised use of memories of mother in narrative re-construction of problematic pasts -- Positioning -- Social organisation of memories -- Performing social actons: Reconfiguring the past -- Mother-blaming -- Conclusion -- References -- Response -- to commentaries on ''Memories of Mother: Counter-narratives of early maternal influence'' -- References -- Negotiating ''normality'' when IVF fails -- The IVF storylines -- The interviews -- Analysis -- Negotiating technology -- Managing reproductive normativity -- Meeting the motherhood criteria -- Claiming the childfree life -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Commentaries -- IVF failure: Reproductive normativity and dealing with disappointment -- Discourse analysis and alternative readings -- Counter narratives -- Negotiating technology -- Managing reproductive normativity -- Conclusion -- References -- When IVF fails -- the success of science and medicine -- References -- On identifying counter-narratives of failed IVF -- References -- Response -- to commentaries on ''Negotiating Normality: When IVF Fails'' -- Texts in context -- The progressive storyline -- Looking at the big picture -- Conclusion -- References -- Photographic visions and narrative inquiry -- Preliminary considerations for visual approaches to narrative inquiry -- Auto/biographical and narrative uses of visual images -- Studying 'everyday' photography: Photographs in people's lives -- Fieldwork -- What is everyday photography? -- Photographs, memory and narratives -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Commentaries -- Photographs and counter-narratives -- Conflicts provoked by valuable photographs -- Work with counter-narrative photographs and their possessors -- Constructing negative and positive narratives with the help of photo-images -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Hearing what is shown and seeing what is said -- Notes -- References -- Show is tell -- References -- Response -- to commentaries on ''Photographic visions height8pt depth3pt width0pt and narrative inquiry'' -- 'Pictures do not verbalize anything' -- Topic and resource -- Conflict and counter-narratives -- Using visual images in narrative inquiry -- Conclusion -- References -- ''That's very rude, I shouldn't be telling you that'' -- The creation of the narratives -- A discursive approach to narratives -- Dominant cultural storylines and counter-narratives -- Identifying counter-narratives within data -- emic analysis -- Participant's orientations to telling a counter-narrative -- Identifying counter-narratives.
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Counter-narratives only make sense in relation to something else, that which they are countering. The very name identifies it as a positional category, in tension with another category. But what is dominant and what is resistant are not, of course, static questions, but rather are forever shifting placements. The discussion of counter-narratives is ultimately a consideration of multiple layers of positioning. The fluidity of these relational categories is what lies at the center of the chapters and commentaries collected in this book. The book comprises six target chapters by leading scholars.