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9780791463536

Women on the Verge of Home

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  • ISBN13:

    9780791463536

  • ISBN10:

    0791463532

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-04-15
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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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.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Ruth Behar
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Women on the Verge of Home
1(26)
Bilinda Straight
Still Life
27(18)
Kathleen Stewart
A Long Way from Home: Slavery, Travel, and Imperial Geography in The History of Mary Prince
45(26)
Elizabeth A. Bohls
My Shafiqa: Concerning the Travels and Transgressions of a Southern Egyptian Woman
71(18)
Katherine E. Zirbel
Cold Hearths: The Losses of Home in an Appalachian Woman's Life History
89(20)
Bilinda Straight
Liminal Space and Liminal Time: A Woman's Narrative of a Year Abroad, 1938--1939
109(20)
Caroline B. Brettell
Desire, Migration, and Attachment to Place: Narratives of Rural French Women
129(20)
Deborah Reed-Danahay
Foreign Spirits inside the Family: Vodu Home on the Ex-Slave Coast
149(26)
Judy Rosenthal
Concepts of Home
175(6)
Gina Ulysse
List of Contributors 181(4)
Index 185

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