Telling Our Lives - Conversations on Solidarity and Difference

Informationen zum Autor By Frida Kerner Furman; Elizabeth A. Kelly and Linda Williamson Nelson Klappentext Telling Our Lives explores how three working-class women-from Jewish, African-American, and Irish-American backgrounds connect across their differences through storytelling and conversation. Zusammenfassung Telling Our Lives explores how three working-class women-from Jewish! African-American! and Irish-American backgrounds connect across their differences through storytelling and conversation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Daughters of Diaspora: Negotiating Family and Cultural Heritage Chapter 4 A Friend of My Mind: Co-Construction and Cooperation in Extended Conversations Chapter 5 The House that Words Built: Education and Dissidence Chapter 6 For Every Border, a Bridge: Identity, Hybridity, and Moral Selves Chapter 7 Work As Prayer: The Spiritual Dynamics of Professional Lives Within and Against the Academy Chapter 8 Interwoven Lives, Cosmopolitan Visions Chapter 9 Bibliography Chapter 10 Index

Product details

• Authors: Frida Kerner Furman, Frida Kerner Kelly Furman, Frida Kerner/ Kelly Furman, Elizabeth A Kelly, Elizabeth A. Kelly, Linda Williamson Nelson
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.08.2005
• EAN: 9780742541740
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-4174-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Feminist Constructions; Feminist Constructions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories