This book explores the idea of "home." Using feminist scholarship and ethnographically grounded readings of historical, literary, and cultural texts, contributors interrogate the comfortable and stable contours of home and ask what it means to women in different social, class, sexual, ethnic, and racial contexts in different times and places. Giving voice to diverse women's understandings of home, the book includes stories of elite white U.S. and Canadian women, rural poor and peasant white women in the United States and France, a British Caribbean freed slave woman, and others.

Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya Bilinda Straight "An engaging, provocative intervention in cultural theory."--Journal of the American Academy of Religion "Straight's . . . work reminds the reader of the important ways that theory and ethnography can mutually inform and illuminate, and the book is an important contribution to the existing literature for both area specialist and the theoretically inclined."--American Anthropologist The Samburu of northern Kenya struggle to maintain their pastoral way of life as drought and the side effects of globalization...