Michele Foster (ed.)

Unrelated Kin

Race and Gender in Women's Personal Narratives
Herausgeber: Etter-Lewis, Gwendolyn; Foster, Michele

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking book presents conceptual, theoretical and applied research on women's life histories. The authors fulfill two needs: they provide a collection of essays that grapple with controversial issues in the study of life history, and they present many narratives from women of color, the majority collected and interpreted by women of color. The individual chapters offer a variety of voices linked by a philosophical and political orientation that places women of color at the center of scholarly inquiry rather than at the periphery. Ultimately, readers find in this text innovative ways of reconceptualizing the complexities of women's lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780415911399
• ISBN-10: 0415911397
• Artikelnr.: 21611732

Autorenporträt

Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis is Associate Professor of English at Western Michigan University. She is the author of My Soul Is My Own (Routledge, 1993). Michele Foster is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Education at University of California, Davis.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
MOTHERS
FAMILY
AND SURVIVAL
1. From a Lineage of Southern Women
2. "You Don't Live Just For Yourselves"
3. More than a Mother
TRANSFORMATION AND CHANGE
4. "I Know Who I Am"
5. The Multiple and Transformatory Identities of Puerto Rican Women in the U.S.
6. "I Have a Frog in My Stomach"
LANGUAGE
HISTORY
AND CULTURE
7. "Tryin' to Make Ends Meet"
8. "Comrade Sisters"
9. From the Inside Out
INSIDERS AND OUTSIDERS
10. Hands in the Chit'lins
11. An Anthropological Approach to Cambodian Refugee Women
12. Like Us But Not One of Us
Contributors
Index