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

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Produktbeschreibung

This title presents conceptual, theoretical and applied research on women's life histories. The authors fulfill two needs: providing 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 239
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134715053
• Artikelnr.: 63039304

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