Women writing women : the Frontiers reader / edited by Patricia Hart and Karen Weathermon, with Susan H. Armitage. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hart, Patricia, 1950-

Weathermon, Karen, 1961-

Armitage, Susan H. (Susan Hodge), 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's studies--Biographical methods.

Women's studies.

Women--Biography.

Women.

Women--Social conditions.

Women's studies--Biographical methods--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 277 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 of experiences. To give voice to the different realities women live in and write from, the editors have divided the anthology into four sections: writing about the self; writing about the family and other intimate relationships; writing about the women they study; and writing about women from sources such as diaries and letters. Within this framework women touch on subjects such as ethnicity, sexuality, motherhood, and feminist versus traditional values. The result is a collection of essays that pays tribute to women's complex realities and to their critical creativity in writing about those realities.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-46620-0

9786610466207

0-8032-5297-8

OCLC:

1024286050