Title: Women Creating Lives: Identities, Resilience, And Resistance
Abstract: Introduction - women's lives and theories, Carol E. Franz and Abigail J. Stewart. Part 1 Psychologists (re)creating women's lives: towards a feminist strategy for studying women's lives, A.J. Stewart attempting to comprehend the lives of low-income mothers, Deborah Belle the ethics of ambiguity - feminists writing women's lives, Gail A. Hornstein. Part 2 Dialogues - talking with women about their lives: against the odds - resiliency in an adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse, Frances K. Grossman and Roslin P. Moore a word and a kindness - the journey of a black social worker, Rosario Ceballo speaking against the silence - one Maya woman's exile and return, M.Brinton Lykes coping with internment - a Nisei women's perspective, Donna K. Nagata I didn't want a life like - constructing a life between cultures, Amy Schulz. Part 3 Overcoming distance in studying women's lives: who's that girl? - a case study of Madonna, Lynne Layton image, theme and character in the life-story of Karen Horney, Dan P. McAdams the complexities of a young adult woman's relational work - challenges, demands and benefits, Elizabeth L. Paul traumatic historical events and adolescent psychosocial development - letters from V, Oliva M. Espin. Part 5 One life among many - cases drawn from group studies: medicine is my lust - the story of a woman physician, Lillian K. Cartwright reconstituting the self - the role of history, personality and loss in one woman's life, C.E. Franz my dirty little secret - women as clandestine intellectuals, Carol Tomlinson-Keasey. Part 7 Lives in contrast - comparative case studies: difference, desire and the self - three stores, Arlene Stein personal choices in political climates - coping with legal and illegal abortion, Sharon Gold-Steinberg struggle and strength in the lives of two lesbian priests, Brian Litzenberger meanings and uses of marginal identities - social class at Radcliffe in the 1960s, Joan M. Ostrove and A.J. Stewart a struggle that continues - black women, community and resistance, Elizabeth R. Cole lessons from lives, C.E. Franz et al.
Publication Year: 1994
Publication Date: 1994-06-05
Language: en
Type: book
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