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Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction / Ruthellen Josselson -- In acknowledgment: a review and critique of qualitative research texts / June Price -- Autobiography and the value structures of ordinary experience: Marianne Gullestad's Everyday life philosophers / Paul John Eakin -- "Black holes" as sites for self-constructions / Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen -- An interpretive poetics of languages of the unsayable / Annie G. Rogers [and others] -- Gender, generation, anxiety, and the reproduction of culture / Wendy Holloway and Tony Jefferson -- The recruitment of women into the academic elite in Israel: Anna's narrative / Beverly Mizrachi -- Powerful stories: the role of stories in sustaining and transforming professional practice within a mental hospital / Tineke A. Abma -- Writing as performance: young girl's diaries / Barbara Crowther -- Ding Ling and Miss Sophie's diary: a psychobiographical study of adolescent identity formation / Dora Shu-fang Dien -- Love stories in sexual autobiographies / Elina Haavio-Mannila and J.P. Roos
The sixth volume in this series provides: guides for doing qualitative research; analysis of several autobiographies; hints on how to interpret what it not said in narrative interviews; discussion on how cultural meanings and values are transmitted across generations; and illustrations of the transformational power of stories