| Women on the Verge of Home Contributor(s): Straight, Bilinda (Editor), Behar, Ruth (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0791463540 ISBN-13: 9780791463543 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2005 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory |
| Dewey: 305.4 |
| LCCN: 2004045338 |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 6.04" W x 8.98" (0.62 lbs) 189 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |