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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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Tabella dei contenuti

FOREWORD
Ruth Behar

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. Introduction: Women on the Verge of Home
Bilinda Straight

2. Still Life
Kathleen Stewart

3. A Long Way from Home: Slavery, Travel, and Imperial Geography in The History of Mary Prince
Elizabeth A. Bohls

4. My Shafiqa: Concerning the Travels and Transgressions of a Southern Egyptian Woman
Katherine E. Zirbel

5. Cold Hearths: The Losses of Home in an Appalachian Woman’s Life History
Bilinda Straight

6. Liminal Space and Liminal Time: A Woman’s Narrative of a Year Abroad, 19381939
Caroline B. Brettell

7. Desire, Migration, and Attachment to Place: Narratives of Rural French Women
Deborah Reed-Danahay

8. Foreign Spirits inside the Family: Vodu Home on the Ex-Slave Coast
Judy Rosenthal

9. Concepts of Home
Gina Ulysse

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Circa l’autore

Bilinda Straight is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Western Michigan University.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato PDF ● Pagine 203 ● ISBN 9780791483770 ● Dimensione 0.6 MB ● Editore Bilinda Straight ● Casa editrice State University of New York Press ● Pubblicato 2005 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 7666822 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM

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