First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Mary Romero, author of Maid in the U.S.A. (Routledge, 1992), is Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Arizona State University. Abigail J. Steward is the coeditor or coauthor of eight books and is Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan and is Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender

CONTENTS

Breaking Silence
The Only Black Woman Walking the Face of the Earth Who Cannot Have a Baby
Kind of Neanderthal or Perfectly Normal: Giving Birth at Home
(De)constructing Alternative Realities: Image, Ambiguity, and Allegiance in a Mother's Response to the Disclosure of Incest
Life on the Home Front: Housewives' Experience of World War II
Expanding the Internment Narrative: Multiple Layers of Japanese American Women's Experiences
Crossborder Existence

Talking Back
Skirting the Normal Gender Divide: A Tomboy Life Story
Climbing out of the Pit: From the Black Middle Class to Homeless and (Almost) Back Again
One of the Family or Just the Mexican Maid's Daughter? Belonging, Identity and Social Mobility
Millie's Story: Re-inscribing, Resisting and Reproducing Master Narratives
How Would You Write about That? Language, Identity and the Construction of Legitimate Knowledge

Voicing Complexity
I've Got to Try to Make a Difference: A White Woman in the Civil Rights Movement
A Contintuing Commitment to Social Change: Portraits of Activism over Adulthood
In My Heart I Will Always Be Hmong: One Hmong Woman's Bicultural Narrative
Inventing a Labor of Love: Scholarship as a Woman's Work
Berta's Story: Journey from Sweatshop to Showroom