Abstract

Abstract This paper focuses on the strengths of a feminist narrative metaphor in helping women“re-author” (White, 1995) their daily lives. I overview the philosophical assumptions and clinical strategies inherent in narrative therapy and discuss how such a metaphor might integrate the insights of feminist theory and practice. While women make meaning of their everyday lives through stories or self-narratives framed by dominant misogynous cultural meta-nar-ratives, a re-authoring can occur when women create alternative meanings associated with new self-narratives. The paper discusses an application of the feminist narrative metaphor of treatment to the general theme of the“beauty myth” (Wolf, 1991) and shares a short case example.