Tells the stories of women who have been left at the margins of history and politics, from Japanese women in internment camps, to a sweatshop worker who made the transition to the showroom, and tomboys breaking gender norms.
Women's Untold Stories Summary
Women's Untold Stories: Breaking Silence, Talking Back, Voicing Complexity by Mary Romero
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
About Mary Romero
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
Table of Contents
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'sResponse to the Disclosure of Incest Life on the Home Front: Housewives' Experience of World War II Expanding the Internment Narrative: Multiple Layers ofJapanese 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 SocialMobility Millie's Story: Re-inscribing, Resisting andReproducing Master Narratives How Would You Write about That? Language, Identity and the Construction ofLegitimate Knowledge
Voicing Complexity I've Got to Try to Make a Difference: A White Woman in theCivil Rights Movement A Contintuing Commitment to Social Change: Portraits of Activism over Adulthood In My Heart I Will Always Be Hmong: One Hmong Woman'sBicultural Narrative Inventing a Labor of Love: Scholarship as a Woman's Work Berta's Story: Journeyfrom Sweatshop to Showroom
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Women's Untold Stories: Breaking Silence, Talking Back, Voicing Complexity by Mary Romero
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