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Sounding of Women, A: Autobiographies from Unexpected Places 1/e
Martha C. Ward
Published May 1997 by Allyn & Bacon
Copyright 1998, 194 pp., Paper
ISBN: 0-205-27015-8
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Summary

KEY BENEFIT: So often it is difficult to find a collection of autobiographical stories from uniquely different women of varied cultures. Generally, women's stories are untold, unheard, or unrecorded; however, no more elegant tool exists to describe the human condition than narrative. Written by an anthropologist who designed the first official Women's Studies course in Louisiana, this book has been fueled by the explosion of fascinating research on women since the 1970s.KEY TOPICS: Collected Wisdom explores and validates the experiences of women around the world through the autobiographical stories of seven women from different cultures. The author has taken each of these stories, put them into perspective, and related them to larger themes and issues. MARKET: Fascinating autobiographies of interest to: anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, and women from all walks of life.

Features

  • The presentation of seven women's autobiographies provides comparative viewpoints of various cultures throughout the world.
  • Designed as a book of ethnographic readings that organizes the voices of women from far-ranging cultures around the world and presents them in an accessible format.
  • A unique cross-cultural perspective of women and their human experiences.
  • Reading suggestions and provocative questions at the end of each chapter as well as introductions and follow-up sections for each of the autobiographies offer additional study and instructional material.
Table of Contents



Introduction.


 1.Anonymous, You Must Dance Vigorously.


 2.Etsu, The Eyelids of a Samurai Know Not Moisture.


 3.Mary, You Can't Get Through Hell in a Hurry.


 4.Baba, There Together, I, My Co-Wife and Our Children.


 5.Inocencia, Expecting Good Things To Happen.


 6.Amiria, The Place Where You Fed at Your Mother's Breast.


 7.Nawal, I Had To Find My Own Answer To The Question.


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