{"product_id":"telling-stories-9780801473920","title":"Telling Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTelling Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett argue that personal narratives--autobiographies, oral histories, life history interviews, and memoirs--are an important research tool for understanding the relationship between people and their societies. Gathering examples from throughout the world and from premodern as well as contemporary cultures, they draw from labor history and class analysis, feminist sociology, race relations, and anthropology to demonstrate the value of personal narratives for scholars and students alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTelling Stories\u003c\/i\u003e explores why and how personal narratives should be used as evidence, and the methods and pitfalls of their use. The authors stress the importance of recognizing that stories that people tell about their lives are never simply individual. Rather, they are told in historically specific times and settings and call on rules, models, and social experiences that govern how story elements link together in the process of self-narration. Stories show how individuals' motivations, emotions, and imaginations have been shaped by their cumulative life experiences. In turn, \u003ci\u003eTelling Stories\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how the knowledge produced by personal narrative analysis is not simply contained in the stories told; the understanding that takes place between narrator and analyst and between analyst and audience enriches the results immeasurably.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Jo Maynes is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eTaking the Hard Road: Life Course and Class Identity in French and German Workers' Autobiographies of the Industrial Era\u003c\/i\u003e and author or coeditor of several other books. Jennifer L. Pierce is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eGender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of two books. Barbara Laslett is Professor of Sociology Emerita at the University of Minnesota. She is the coeditor of several books, including \u003ci\u003eFeminist Sociology: Life Histories of a Movement\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514480038162,"sku":"9780801473920","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_41995c54-b009-42f3-afe0-917208d7505a.jpg?v=1730984342","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/telling-stories-9780801473920","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}