Considering Counter-Narratives -- 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 within data - etic analysis -- The analyst's identification of counter-narratives -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Commentaries -- Narratives as drawn-upon and narratives as occasioned: Challenges in reconciling an emic and etic analysis -- Two views of narrative -- Warranting claims at the ``Emic''level of analysis -- Excerpt 1 - Liz (and a brief comment on excerpt 3 - Liz) -- Excerpt 2 - Lesley -- Excerpt 4 - Win -- Excerpt 5 - Win -- Warranting claims at the ``Etic''level of analysis -- References.

``But what's at stake?''Older women talking about sexuality -- Complicating counter narratives -- Sticking to the dominant cultural storyline -- The production of counter narratives -- Notes -- References -- What discourse analysis reveals about elderly women, sex and the struggle with societal norms -- Available roles for elderly women: Asexual, liberal or both? -- Employing Goffman and Gumperz: The value of a micro-analytic approach to talk-in-interaction -- References -- Response -- to commentaries on ```That's very rude, I shouldn't be telling you that': Older women talking about sex'' -- Emic and etic analysis -- Theoretical positions -- The benefits of microanalysis -- Co-construction -- What counts as discourse analysis? -- Note -- References -- White trash pride and the exemplary black citizen -- A brief history of recent talk on television -- Women are trash -- White trash pride -- Black citizenship -- Notes -- References -- Commentaries -- Social identity work in storytelling: Methodological remarks -- Main issues -- Basic concepts and methodological questions -- An ethnomethodological perspective -- Talking and acting: Making change and doing development -- Language use - and language user - in the ``doing of talking'' -- Talking, acting, talking about acting, and just talking -- The closed nature of openness -- Semiotic Demand Settings (SDS) -- Connectedness and disconnectedness -- Conclusion: Looking for a general model -- References -- The context of race in reading narratives on daytime talk shows -- References -- Day-time talk shows as a forum for social critique -- References -- Meta-narratives of cultural experience: Race, class, gender -- References -- Response -- to commentaries on ``White trash pride and the exemplary black citizen'' -- Notes -- References -- Charting the narrative unconscious -- Narrative and counter-narrative.

The distant origins of the self -- Rethinking autobiography -- Autobiography and poiesis -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Commentaries -- Discussing nonconscious processes involved in autobiography -- Introduction -- Constructing self-guiding narratives -- Can a constructivist/narrativist utilize a psychollage signified by the term unconscious? -- Construing the psychollages used in Freeman's article -- Memory processes and off awareness psychological functioning in narrative making -- Explaining the assembling of an ``uncharacteristic'' autobiography -- Anticipated outcome -- Notes -- References -- Constructing the narrative unconscious -- Can memory be collective? -- Who fashions what out of cultural givens? -- What is a cultural given and who exactly gives to whom? -- Are cultural memories more local or national? -- Where do we go from here? -- References -- Possible lives -- References -- Working the narrative unconscious: Positioning theory and moral order -- Notes -- References -- Response -- to commentaries on ``Charting the narrative unconscious: Cultural memory and the challenge of autobiography'' -- References -- Considering counter narratives -- Narrative and claiming a sense of self -- Narratives and counter claims -- Master narratives -- Invocations of master narratives -- Analyzing counter narratives -- Where (and How) do counter narratives emerge? -- Positioning -- Concluding remarks (to open up) -- References -- Index -- The series Studies in Narrative.