Introduction / Patricia Hart, Karen Weathermon, and Susan H. Armitage -- Weave and mend / Joanne B. Mulcahy -- Sense and responsibility, "la verdad es muda," and "olvidate de todo, menos de mi" / Maribel Sosa -- Of milk and miracles : nursing, the life drive, and subjectivity / Katherine Sutherland -- It takes a global village to raise a consciousness : a stretch of the imagination / Nancy Reincke -- Two Cherokee women / Roseanna Sneed -- Like a bamboo : representations of a Japanese war bride / Debbie Storrs -- Filming Nana : some dilemmas of oral history on film / Connie Broughton -- Fragments from a family album / Shawn Michelle Smith -- Potties, pride, and PC : scenes from a lesbian mothers' group / Anne Aronson -- Gender issues in the Afghanistan diaspora : Nadia's story / Audrey C. Shalinsky -- From the Yazoo Mississippi Delta to the urban communities of the Midwest : conversations with rural African American women / Valerie Grim -- Walls and bridges : cultural mediation and the legacy of Ella Deloria / Janet L. Finn -- A (boarding) house is not a home : women's work and woman's worth on the margins of domesticity / Kari Boyd McBride -- "Broke in spirits" : death, depression, and endurance through writing / Pamela Riney-Kehrberg -- "It is hard to be born a woman but hopeless to be born a Chinese" : the life and times of Flora Belle Jan / Judy Yung -- Appendix: Alternative grouping by topic