Description: This groundbreaking multidisciplinary and multicultural examination of women's oral and written documents offers rich insights into the ways that women's voices and life stories can inform scholarly research. Acknowledments Part One: Origins Origins: Personal Narratives Group Part Two: Context "Conditions Not of Her Own Making" Personal Narratives Group Liberating the Subject? Autobiography and "Women's History": A Reading of The Diaries of Hannah Cullwich Julia Swindells The Context of Personal Narrative: Reflections on "Not Either an Experimental Doll"-The Separate Worlds of Three South African Women Shula Marks Dissonance and Harmony: The Symbolic Function of Abortion in Activists' Life Stories Faye Ginsburg What's a Life Story Got to Do with It? Karen Brodkin Sacks Part Three: Narrative Forms Forms That Transform Personal Narratives Group Gender and Narrative Form in French and German Working-Class Autobiographies Mary Jo Maynes Poetry and Truth: Elisa von der Recke's Sentimental Autobiography Katherine R. Goodman Considering More than a Single Reader Elizabeth Hampsten Nineteenth-Century Black Women's Spiritual Autobiographies: Religious Faith and Self-Empowerment Nellie Y. McKay Personal Narratives, Dynasties, and Women's Campaigns: Two Examples from Africa Marcia Wright Transformative Subjectivity in the Writings of Christa Wolf Sandra Frieden Women's Personal Narratives: Myths, Experiences, and Emotions Luisa Passerini Part Four: Narrator and Interpreter Whose Voice? Personal Narratives Group "I'd Have Been a Man": Politics and the Labor Process in Producting Personal Narratives Marjorie Mbilinyi "What the Wind Won't Take Away": The Genesis of Nisa-The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman Marjorie Shostak The Double Frame of Life History in the Work of Barbara Myerhoff Riv-Ellen Prell Part Five: Truths Truths Personal Narratives Group Contributors Index
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EAN: 9780253205018
UPC: 9780253205018
ISBN: 9780253205018
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Book Title: Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Pe
Item Length: 23.7 cm
Item Weight: 0.38 kg
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives
Language: English
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: Zoology
Publication Year: 1989
Type: Textbook
Author: Personal Narratives Group
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
