Take my word : autobiographical innovations of ethnic American working women / Anne E. Goldman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldman, Anne E., 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's studies--United States--Biographical methods.

Women's studies.

Working class women--United States--Biography.

Working class women.

Minority women--United States--Biography.

Minority women.

Ethnology--Biographical methods.

Ethnology.

Autobiography--Women authors.

Autobiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1996]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In an innovative critique of traditional approaches to autobiography, Anne E. Goldman convincingly demonstrates that ethnic women can and do speak for themselves, even in the most unlikely contexts. Citing a wide variety of nontraditional texts--including the cookbooks of Nuevo Mexicanas, African American memoirs of midwifery and healing, and Jewish women's histories of the garment industry--Goldman illustrates how American women have asserted their ethnic identities and made their voices heard over and sometimes against the interests of publishers, editors, and readers. While the dominant culture has interpreted works of ethnic literature as representative of a people rather than an individual, the working women of this study insist upon their own agency in narrating rich and complicated self-portraits.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Introduction. Autobiography, Ethnography, and History: A Model for Reading

1. "I yam what I yam": Cooking, Culture, and Colonialism in New Mexico

2. "Same Boat, Different Stops": Re-collecting Culture in Black Culinary Autobiography

3. Is That What She Said? The Politics of Collaborative Autobiography

4. "You might not like this what I'm fixin to say now": The Speaker as Author(ity) in the Edited Text

5. "Such a lady": Class-Consciousness and Cultural Practice in Jewish Women's Autobiography

6. "I was there in the front lines, though I may not always have been visible": Self-Determination in the Autobiographies of Jewish Women Labor Organizers

Coda

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780585270074

0585270074

9780520916364

0520916360

OCLC:

1163878848