Unrelated Kin

Race and Gender in Women's Personal Narratives
Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-0-415-91139-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 349 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Etter-Lewis, Gwendolyn

Foster, Michele

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volks- und Völkerkundliche Museen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.