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Interrogates the comfortable and stable contours of home, asking what it means to women in different social, class, sexual, ethnic, and racial contexts in different times and places.

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.

Women on the Verge of Home

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    Publisher: State University of New York Press
    Publication Date: 03/03/2005
    ISBN13: 9780791463536, 978-0791463536
    ISBN10: 791463532
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    Feminism and feminist theory Gender studies: women and girls Social and cultural anthropology

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    Interrogates the comfortable and stable contours of home, asking what it means to women in different social, class, sexual, ethnic, and racial contexts in different times and places.

    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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