Women Creating Lives

by Franz, Carol E.; Stewart, Abigail J.

• ISBN13: 9780813318738
• ISBN10: 0813318734
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-05-01
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Author Biography

Abigail J. Stewart is professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, and director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She is the author of many articles on the psychology of women, and she co-edited the volume Women's Untold Stories with Mary Romero.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Women's Lives and Theories	p. 1
Psychologists (re)creating Women's Lives	p. 9
Toward A Feminist Strategy for Studying Women's Lives	p. 11
Attempting to Comprehend the Lives of Low-Income Women	p. 37
The Ethics of Ambiguity: Feminists Writing Women's Lives	p. 51
Dialogues: Talking with Women About Their Lives	p. 69
Against the Odds: Resiliency in an Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse	p. 71
A Word and A Kindness: the Journey of A Black Social Worker	p. 83
Speaking Against the Silence: One Maya Woman's Exile and Return	p. 97
Coping with Internment: A Nisei Woman's Perspective	p. 115
""""I Didn't Want A Life like That"""": Constructing A Life Between Cultures	p. 127
Overcoming Distance in Studying Women's Lives	p. 141
Who's That Girl? A Case Study of Madonna	p. 143
Image, Theme, and Character in the Life Story of Karen Horney	p. 157
The Complexities of A Young Adult Woman's Relational World: Challenges, Demands, and Benefits	p. 173
Traumatic Historical Events and Adolescent Psychosocial Development: Letters from V	p. 187
One Life Among Many: Cases Drawn from Group Studies	p. 199
Medicine Is My Lust: the Story of A Woman Physician	p. 201
Reconstituting the Self: the Role of History, Personality, and Loss in One Woman's Life	p. 213
My Dirty Little Secret: Women as Clandestine Intellectuals	p. 227
Lives in Contrast: Comparative Case Studies	p. 247
Difference, Desire, and the Self: Three Stories	p. 249
Personal Choices in Political Climates: Coping with Legal and Illegal Abortion	p. 263
Struggle and Strength in the Lives of Two Lesbian Priests	p. 273
Meanings and Uses of Marginal Identities: Social Class at Radcliffe in the 1960s	p. 289
A Struggle That Continues: Black Women, Community, and Resistance	p. 309
Lessons from Lives	p. 325
About the Book	p. 335
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 337
Index	p. 341
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