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Treasures : the stories women tell about the things they keep / Kathleen V. Cairns and Elaine Leslau Silverman.
- Title
- Treasures : the stories women tell about the things they keep / Kathleen V. Cairns and Elaine Leslau Silverman.
- Author
- Cairns, Kathleen V.
- Publication
- Calgary : University of Calgary Press, 2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | AM313 .C35 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Silverman, Eliane Leslau
- Description
- xxiii, 376 p. : ill.; 18 cm.
- Summary
- "This is a book about memory and meaning; these texts bring to light the patterns of story and emotion that women have woven around the objects they have kept and treasured, objects which in the past may have seemed unimportant. These treasures contain and reveal each woman's life experience and act as vehicles for her values and for the development of her character. They are often passed along to other women or handed down to family members, thereby connecting generations and cultivating a collective women's history. Selected from interviews with over one hundred different women, these are stories told in the women's own voices."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-376).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Creating and re-creating the self -- Possessions -- Some important connections -- Knowing through the body -- Grief, despair, and resilience -- Character -- Exile and community : preserving connections -- Commitment and autonomy -- App. Learning from women.
- ISBN
- 1552380734 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2004463338
- OCLC
- 54892407
- SCSB-12105641
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library