Women on the verge of home / edited by Bilinda Straight with a foreword by Ruth Behar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Straight, Bilinda, 1964- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women.

Home--Psychological aspects.

Home.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2005]

Summary:

This book explores the idea of "home." Using feminist scholarship and ethnographically grounded readings of historical, literary, and cultural texts, contributors interrogate the comfortable and stable contours of home and ask what it means to women in different social, class, sexual, ethnic, and racial contexts in different times and places. Giving voice to diverse women's understandings of home, the book includes stories of elite white U.S. and Canadian women, rural poor and peasant white women in the United States and France, a British Caribbean freed slave woman, and others.

Contents:

Front Matter

contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Still Life

A Long Way from Home

My Shafiqa

Cold Hearths

Liminal Space and Liminal Time

Desire, Migration, and Attachment to Place

Foreign Spirits inside the Family

Concepts of Home

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780791483770

0791483770