Making meaning of narratives / 
Ruthellen Josselson, Amia Lieblich, editors. 
 - Thousand Oaks, Calif. :  Sage Publications,  c1999. 
 - xiii, 282 p. ;  23 cm. 
 - The narrative study of lives ;  v. 6 .
 - Narrative study of lives ;  v. 6. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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 ... [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: 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. 
<br/><br/> Contributors from five countries, in fields including criminology, literature studies, nursing, psychology, and sociology, explore issues such as how to make meaning of narrative interviews by considering the problem of interpreting what is not said, how cultural meanings about gender are transmitted across generations, and uses of the transformati. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0761903267 9780761903260 0761903275 (pbk.) 9780761903277 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>98040298 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Narration (Rhetoric)<br/>Autobiography.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN212  / .M35 1999 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>808