Reynolds, Jill and Taylor, Stephanie
(2005).
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Abstract
This paper discusses a speaker's narrative and discursive work to counter the negative associations of an identity as a single woman. An analysis of extracts from one interview exemplifies patterns found in a larger body of data. The speaker's story does rhetorical work (Billig, 1987) against the dominant 'coupledom' narrative of a life which progresses through stages associated with the heterosexual family, including love, marriage and parenthood. Her own life narrative is structured differently. The three structures we discuss are resources which can accommodate the unique details of a particular speaker's life as a single woman while also doing work against commonly held assumptions that singleness is a deficit identity.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2005 John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| ISSN: | 1387-6740 |
| Keywords: | Deficit identity; single women; narrative; discursive; coupledom |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Health and Social Care > Health and Social Care Social Sciences > Psychology in the Social Sciences |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) |
| Item ID: | 2785 |
| Depositing User: | Jill Reynolds |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jun 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Oct 2012 07:35 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/2785 |
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