Women on the Verge of Home
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Women on the Verge of Home

  1. 203 pages
  2. English
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Women on the Verge of Home

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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.

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Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9780791483770
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF HOME
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. 1. Introduction: Women on the Verge of Home
  6. 2. Still Life
  7. 3. A Long Way from Home: Slavery, Travel, and Imperial Geography in The History of Mary Prince
  8. 4. My Shafiqa: Concerning the Travels and Transgressions of a Southern Egyptian Woman
  9. 5. Cold Hearths: The Losses of Home in an Appalachian Woman’s Life History
  10. 6. Liminal Space and Liminal Time A Woman’s Narrative of a Year Abroad, 1938–1939
  11. 7. Desire, Migration, and Attachment to Place: Narratives of Rural French Women
  12. 8. Foreign Spirits inside the Family: Vodu Home on the Ex-Slave Coast
  13. 9. Concepts of Home
  14. List of Contributors
  15. Index