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Authors: Kim M. Vaz (Editor), Kim Marie Vaz
ISBN-13: 9780803974296, ISBN-10: 0803974299
Format: Paperback
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date Published: June 1997
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Kim M. Vaz

Book Synopsis

Oral narrative researchers from a range of disciplines present their personal portraits on the methodological strategies they have found useful in bringing the experiences of African and African American women into full view. This insightful and thought-provoking resource explores in detail: how new information about African women is being created; the strengths of oral narrative research for expanding and transforming knowledge about black women; and how carrying out oral history research has affected the researchers' personal and professional lives.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
1Introduction: Oral Narrative Research With Black Women1
2Ophelia and Me: Tribute to an Early Narrative Researcher7
3Professions of Faith: A Teacher Reflects on Women, Race, Church, and Spirit24
4What Do Women Know? ... As I Was Saying!41
5You Haven't Seen Anything Until You Make a Black Woman Mad64
6Oral History: Louisiana Black Women's Memoirs83
7Talking About Sex and HIV: Conceptualizing a New Sociology of Experience99
8Methodological Issues in Triangulation: Measuring Weight Control Behavior of African American Women119
9Where Have All the Nice Old Ladies Gone? Researching the Health Information-Seeking Behavior of Older African American Women143
10African American Women and the Emergence of Self-Will: The Use of Phenomenological Research156
11Reconstructing the History of Musicians' Protective Union Local 274 Through Oral Narrative Method177
12Methodological Considerations in Field Research: Six Case Studies197
13Social Conformity and Social Resistance: Women's Perspectives on "Women's Place"223
14European American and African American Men and Women's Valuations of Feminist and Natural Science Research Methods in Psychology250
About the Authors260

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