Women writing women : the Frontiers reader /

By merging scholarly writing with personal life stories, Women Writing Women creates a new setting for communicating the unique experiences of women. The interdisciplinary nature of this volume, incorporating authors' ideas on identity, gender, and social realities, illuminates a rich diversity...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hart, Patricia, 1950-, Weathermon, Karen, 1961-, Armitage, Susan H. (Susan Hodge), 1937-
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006.
Temas:
Women's studies > Biographical methods.
Women > Biography.
Women > Social conditions.
Études sur les femmes > Histoires de vie.
Femmes > Biographies.
Femmes > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Women
Women > Social conditions
Women's studies > Biographical methods
Frauenliteratur
Frau > Motiv
Gender Studies & Sexuality.
Gender & Ethnic Studies.
Social Sciences.
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Patricia Hart, Karen Weathermon, and Susan H. Armitage
  • Weave and mend / Joanne B. Mulcahy
  • Sense and responsibility, "la verdad es muda," and "olvidate de todo, menos de mi" / Maribel Sosa
  • Of milk and miracles : nursing, the life drive, and subjectivity / Katherine Sutherland
  • It takes a global village to raise a consciousness : a stretch of the imagination / Nancy Reincke
  • Two Cherokee women / Roseanna Sneed
  • Like a bamboo : representations of a Japanese war bride / Debbie Storrs
  • Filming Nana : some dilemmas of oral history on film / Connie Broughton
  • Fragments from a family album / Shawn Michelle Smith
  • Potties, pride, and PC : scenes from a lesbian mothers' group / Anne Aronson
  • Gender issues in the Afghanistan diaspora : Nadia's story / Audrey C. Shalinsky
  • From the Yazoo Mississippi Delta to the urban communities of the Midwest : conversations with rural African American women / Valerie Grim
  • Walls and bridges : cultural mediation and the legacy of Ella Deloria / Janet L. Finn
  • A (boarding) house is not a home : women's work and woman's worth on the margins of domesticity / Kari Boyd McBride
  • "Broke in spirits" : death, depression, and endurance through writing / Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
  • "It is hard to be born a woman but hopeless to be born a Chinese" : the life and times of Flora Belle Jan / Judy Yung
  • Appendix: Alternative grouping by topic.

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