Treasures: The Stories Women Tell about the Things They Keep

by Kathleen V. Cairns and E.L. Silverman

This is a book about memory and meaning; these texts bring to light the patterns of story and emotion that women have woven around the objects they have kept and treasured, objects which in the past may have seemed unimportant.

These treasures contain and reveal each woman's life experience and act as vehicles for her values and for the development of her character. They are often passed along to other women or handed down to family members,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552380734
• ISBN13: 9781552380734
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.0"

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Every woman will relate to this book. Share it with your friends, your daughters, your mother. It is so inciteful and so meaningful. It is about memory and the objects that create a life story.