The Fibromyalgia Story: Medical Authority and Women's Worlds of Pain

a strong step in showing the potential for both in her own work. She has written a book that will be of great interest to social movement researchers, cultural sociologists, and anyone who likes a good narrative (analysis). She successfully shows how taking stories seriously can help us better understand how political action is a negotiation between culture and structure. Her expansive application of narrative and varied case studies are not intended to be the final word, but rather the first. As she argues, “the impossibility of logically explaining events compels us to tell stories, which in turn preserve the ambiguity that compels us to tell more stories.” (p. 43) Thus, she leaves it to her readers to recognize the value of this perspective, to take up the challenge of narrative and to start telling their own stories... click!