What makes autobiographical storytelling effective for women? Presentation at the CNU Conference on Women and Gender 2025 “Telling Women’s Stories”
- The starting point for this 20-minute presentation is the experience that while storytelling can empower women, this is not always the case. For example, if the story being told is too far removed from the sense of self or embodied feelings, because belonging is threatened, the story may be adapted. As a result, the positive attention that the storyteller receives may not be empowering and relieving. Furthermore, the positive impact of storytelling lives and evolves through listening. True listening allows different parts of the self to be negotiated and to become aware of previously inaccessible or distorted feelings and experiences. When the listener's need for acceptance is met, processes are set in motion in which these feelings and experiences are acknowledged, reducing the need for "contact line management. Considerations from psychological self-regulation, person-centeredness, and shame research are presented for discussion.
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| Author: | Renate Kosuch |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:832-epub4-29792 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.57683/EPUB-2979 |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2025/05/13 |
| GND-Keyword: | Introvision; Mental Self Regulation; Storytelling |
| Page Number: | 13 |
| Institutes: | Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften (F01) / Fakultät 01 / Institut für Geschlechterstudien |
| CCS-Classification: | A. General Literature |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 100 Philosophie und Psychologie |
| 300 Sozialwissenschaften | |
| JEL-Classification: | I Health, Education, and Welfare |
| Open Access: | Open Access |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |