Women on the Verge of Home

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Interrogates the comfortable and stable contours of "home," asking what it means to women in different social, class, sexual, ethnic, and racial contexts in different times and places.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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2005-03-03
Mått153 x 228 x 12 mm
Vikt290 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor203
FörlagState University of New York Press
MedarbetareBehar,Ruth
ISBN9780791463543

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FOREWORD Ruth Behar ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1. Introduction: Women on the Verge of Home Bilinda Straight 2. Still Life Kathleen Stewart 3. A Long Way from Home: Slavery, Travel, and Imperial Geography in The History of Mary PrinceElizabeth A. Bohls 4. My Shafiqa: Concerning the Travels and Transgressions of a Southern Egyptian Woman Katherine E. Zirbel 5. Cold Hearths: The Losses of Home in an Appalachian Woman's Life HistoryBilinda Straight 6. Liminal Space and Liminal Time: A Woman's Narrative of a Year Abroad, 1938–1939Caroline B. Brettell 7. Desire, Migration, and Attachment to Place: Narratives of Rural French Women Deborah Reed-Danahay 8. Foreign Spirits inside the Family: Vodu Home on the Ex-Slave Coast Judy Rosenthal 9. Concepts of Home Gina Ulysse LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS INDEX