Tapestries of Life : Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience

by Aptheker, Bettina

• ISBN13: 9780870236594
• ISBN10: 0870236598
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Summary

Aptheker 'weaves together the voices of women survivors of the Holocaust and of the U.S. concentration camps for Japanese Americans, Chicana cannery workers and southern cotton-mill girls, older lesbians and elderly Jews, Afro-American women in slavery and contemporary Afro-American writers, and others, in order to explore women's ways of seeing. Her analyses of oral histories, novels, legends, poetry, and art show how we can use these records of women's and men's lives.' -- Sandra Harding, Women's Review of Books

Table of Contents

To Kate	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Tapestries of Life	p. 1
Conditions for Work	p. 3
The Dailiness of Women's Lives	p. 37
The Lesbian Connection	p. 75
In the Mind's Eye: Imagination as Survival	p. 121
""Get Over This Hurdle Because There's Another One Coming"": Women's Resistance & Everyday Life	p. 167
Toward a Gathering of Women	p. 231
Notes	p. 255
Small Press Publishers	p. 285
Index	p. 287"
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