Making Meaning of Narratives [Paperback]

The sixth volume in this series provides: guides for doing qualitative research; analysis of several autobiographies; hints on how to interpret what is not said in narrative interviews; discussion on how cultural meanings and values are transmitted across generations; and illustrations of the transformational power of stories.

The sixth volume in this series provides: guides for doing qualitative research; analysis of several autobiographies; hints on how to interpret what is not said in narrative interviews; discussion on how cultural meanings and values are transmitted across generations; and illustrations of the transformational power of stories.

Introduction - Ruthellen Josselson
In Acknowledgment - June Price
A Review and Critique of Qualitative Research Techniques
Autobiography and the Value Structures of Ordinary Experience - Paul John Eakin
Marianne Gullestad's <i>Everyday Life Philosophers
`Black Holes' as Sites for Self-Constructions - Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen
An Interpretive Poetics of Languages of the Unsayable - Annie G Rogers et al
Gender, Generation, Anxiety, and the Reproduction of Culture - Wendy Holloway and Tony Jefferson
The Recruitment of Women into the Academic Elite in Israel - Beverly Mizrachi
Anna's Narrative
Powerful Stories - Tineke A Abma
The Role of Stories in Sustaining and Transforming Professional Practice within a Mental Hospital
Writing as Performance - Barbara Crowther
Young Girls' Diaries
Ding Ling and <i>Miss Sophie's Diary</i> - Dora Shu-fang Dien
A Psychobiographical Study of Adolescent Identity Formation
Love Stories in Sexual Autobiographies - Elina Haavio-Mannila and J P Roos