Author: Rosenwald, George C. & Ochberg, Richard L.; editors:
Title: Storied Lives: The Cultural Politics of Self-Understanding
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, (1992). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, ix,304 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 14 papers.includes: E.G. Mishler "Work, Identity & Narrative: An Artist-Craftsman's Story"; S.D. Rosenberg, et al: "In the Name of the Father"; S. Harding "The Afterlife of Stories: Genesis of a Man of God"; J.Modell "'How Do You Introduce Yourself as a Childless Mother': Birthparent Interpretations of Parenthood"; J.E. Evans "Language & the Body: Communication & Identity Formation in Choreography"; R. Behar "A Life Story to Take Across the Border: Notes on an Exchange"; M. Gergen " Life Stories: Pieces of a Dream"; H. Greenspan "Lives as Texts: Symptoms as Modes of Recounting in the Life Histories of Holocaust Survivors"; A.D. Gresson "African-Americans & the Pursuit of Wider Identities: Self-Other Understandings in Black-Female Narratives"; B.C. Walkover "The Family as an Overwrought Object of Desire"; J. Wiersma "Karen: The Transforming Story"; R.L.Ochberg " Social insight & Psychological Liberation"; C.K. Riessman "Making Sense of Marital Violence: One Woman's Narrative"; W.L. Earnest: "Ideology Criticism & Life-History Research"; Conclusion: Reflections on Narrative Self-Understanding.

Keywords: Social Psychology, Self-Understanding, Life History, Identity, Narrative, Autobiography, Discourse Analysis, Self-Presentation, Sociology