Women's Untold Stories: Breaking Silence, Talking Back, and Voicing Complexity

CONTENTS Breaking Silence The Only Black Woman Walking the Face of the Earth Who Cannot Have a Baby Kind of Neanderthal or Perfectly Normal: Giving Birth at Home (De)constructing Alternative Realities: Image, Ambiguity, and Allegiance in a Mother's Response to the Disclosure of Incest Life on the Home Front: Housewives' Experience of World War II Expanding the Internment Narrative: Multiple Layers of Japanese American Women's Experiences Crossborder Existence Talking Back Skirting the Normal Gender Divide: A Tomboy Life Story Climbing out of the Pit: From the Black Middle Class to Homeless and (Almost) Back Again One of the Family or Just the Mexican Maid's Daughter? Belonging, Identity and Social Mobility Millie's Story: Re-inscribing, Resisting and Reproducing Master Narratives How Would You Write about That? Language, Identity and the Construction of Legitimate Knowledge Voicing Complexity I've Got to Try to Make a Difference: A White Woman in the Civil Rights Movement A Contintuing Commitment to Social Change: Portraits of Activism over Adulthood In My Heart I Will Always Be Hmong: One Hmong Woman's Bicultural Narrative Inventing a Labor of Love: Scholarship as a Woman's Work Berta's Story: Journey from Sweatshop to Showroom