Reciprocal Ethnography and the Power of Women's Narratives

Amy Shuman is Professor of English at The Ohio State University. She is author of Other People's Stories: Entitlement Claims and the Critique of Empathy and author with Carol Bohmer of Political Asylum Deceptions: The Culture of Suspicion. Elaine J. Lawless is Curators' Distinguished Professor Emerita of English and Folklore Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and Religious Studies at the University of Missouri. She is author of multiple books including The Liberation of Winifred Bryan Horner: Writer, Teacher, and Women's Rights Advocate, Women Escaping Violence: Empowerment Through Narrative, and When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics and Community in Pinhook, Missouri.

• Foreword / Amy ShumanAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Learning to Listen, Hear, and Include Women's Voices: The Genesis of Reciprocal Ethnography1. Shouting for the Lord: The Power of Women's Speech in the Pentecostal Religious Service2. Rescripting Their Lives and Narratives: Spiritual Life Stories of Pentecostal Women Preachers3. Access to the Pulpit: Reproductive Images and Maternal Strategies of the Pentecostal Female Pastor4. "I was afraid someone like you . . . an outsider . . . would misunderstand": Negotiating Interpretive Differences Between Ethnographers and Subjects5. Women's Life Stories and Reciprocal Ethnography as Feminist and Emergent6. Writing the Body in the Pulpit: Female-sexed Texts7. Woman as Abject: Resisting Cultural and Religious Myths that Condone Violence Against WomenAppendix: Selected Publications by Elaine J. LawlessIndex