Unrelated Kin: Race and Gender in Women's Personal Narratives

Unrelated Kinis a startling collection of narratives by and about women of color. Presenting survivalist, testimonial and collaborative voices from Native American, African American, Asian American and Latina women, the volume boldly explores the subtle and often shocking realities of non-western and non-white women's lives. The conceptual, theoretical and applied research on women's life histories is central to all the narratives inUnrelated Kin: how are the life experiences of women of color different from those of other women? Can a single research methodology account for the diverse life experiences of all women, of all people? Can outsiders (e.g. white/male) elicit and interpret a woman's life without bias? Linked by a philosophical and political belief that acknowledges the authority of women to write and to speak their own lives,Unrelated Kinoffers intimate views of race and gender within the women's respective culturesand communities, reveals candid details about the struggles and triumphs of "marked" lives, and provides innovative ways of reconceptualizing research on women's life histories.