Full Description
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Contents
CONTENTSBreaking Silence"The Only Black Woman Walking the Face of the Earth Who Cannot Have a Baby""Kind of Neanderthal" or "Perfectly Normal": Giving Birth at Home(De)constructing Alternative Realities: Image, Ambiguity, and Allegiance in a Mother's Response to the Disclosure of IncestLife on the Home Front: Housewives' Experience of World War IIExpanding the Internment Narrative: Multiple Layers of Japanese American Women's ExperiencesCrossborder ExistenceTalking BackSkirting the Normal Gender Divide: A Tomboy Life StoryClimbing out of the Pit: From the Black Middle Class to Homeless and (Almost) Back AgainOne of the Family or Just the Mexican Maid's Daughter? Belonging, Identity and Social MobilityMillie's Story: Re-inscribing, Resisting and Reproducing Master Narratives"How Would You Write about That?" Language, Identity and the Construction of Legitimate KnowledgeVoicing Complexity"I've Got to Try to Make a Difference": A White Woman in the Civil Rights MovementA Contintuing Commitment to Social Change: Portraits of Activism over Adulthood"In My Heart I Will Always Be Hmong": One Hmong Woman's Bicultural NarrativeInventing a Labor of Love: Scholarship as a Woman's WorkBerta's Story: Journey from Sweatshop to Showroom
