ABSTRACT
I have been using life stories in my present research with young British women. I needed a methodology that would not just seek facts and events, but that would look for the ways in which such narrated facts and events suggest a woman’s relationship to the society she lives in, and her current construction of self. This is an approach developed by Chanfrault-Duchet who wished to find ways to access and then analyse material about women’s lives, throwing light on how they, more or less consciously, interpret their status in society.1
