Table of Contents

Introduction - Kim Marie Vaz
Oral Narrative Research with Black Women
PART ONE: Ancestor Mothers
Ophelia and Me - Martia Graham Goodson
Tribute to an Early Narrative Researcher
Professions of Faith - Joycelyn Moody
A Teacher Reflects on Women, Race, Church, and Spirit
PART TWO: RESEARCH PROCESSES: GIVING VOICE
What Do Women Know?...As I was saying! - Christine Obbo
You Haven't Seen Anything Until You Make a Black Woman Mad - Arlene Hambrick
Oral History - Georgia W Brown
Louisiana Black Women's Memoirs
PART THREE: RESEARCH PROCESSES: HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
Talking about Sex and HIV - Renee T White
Conceptualizing a New Sociology of Experience
Methodological Issues in Triangulation - Jacqueline A Walcott-Mc Quigg
Measuring Weight Control Behavior of African American Women
Where Have all the Nice Old Ladies Gone? - Claudia J Gollop
Researching the Health Information-Seeking Behavior of Older African American Women
African American Women and the Emergence of Self-Will - Elizabeth A Peterson
A Report on the Use of Phenomenological Research
PART FOUR: RESEARCH PROCESSES: NEGOTIATING INSTITUTIONS
Reconstructing the History of Musicians' Protective Union Local 274 through Oral Narrative Method - Diane D Turner
Methodological Considerations in Field Research - Patricia Green-Powell
Six Case Studies
Social Conformity and Social Resistance - Kim Marie Vaz
Women's Perspectives on ‘Women's Place'
European American and African American Men and Women's Valuations of Feminist and Natural Science Methods in Psychology - Leslie Ann Kingman