Marked Identities - Narrating Lives between Social Labels and Individual Biographies

Western society has become increasingly diverse, but stereotypes still persist in the public discourse. This volume explores how people who have a marked status in society - among them Travellers, teenage mothers, homeless people - manage their identity in response to these stereotypes.

Alessandra Fasulo, University of Portsmouth, UK Molly Andrews, University of East London, UK Hilary Bruffell, Open University, UK Phoebe Trimingham, BBC News, UK Maria Medved, University of Manitoba, Canada, and American University of Paris, France Jens Brockmeier, University of Manitoba, Canada, and American University of Paris, France Roberta Piazza, University of Sussex, UK Georgia Kougiali, University of Cambridge, UK Antonia Rubino, University of Sydney, Australia