..". rich and thought-provoking... That kind of collaborative writing is feminist scholarship at its best, and exhaustingly difficult." The Women s Review of Books
"A substantial contribution to women s studies and autobiographical criticism." Choice
..". exciting.... will lead to new insight and appreciation of the variety and complexity of women s lives." Feminist Collections
..". provocative... " American Ethnologist
..". rich in thought-provoking insights into the particular ways women have been socialized and the individual routes through which they have successfully resisted roles and paradigms of behavior inimical to the development of a robust sense of self." Women and Language
..". very fine collection of essays... " Auto/Biography Studies
"The essays deal with a fascinatingly broad palette of personal narrative types... This book is to be recommended to anyone interested in feminist research..." Monatshefte
This groundbreaking multidisciplinary and multicultural examination of women s oral and written documents offers rich insights into the ways that women s voices and life stories can inform scholarly research. The book expands our understanding of both the shared experience of gender and the profound differences among women."