| Take My Word |
| PREFACE |
 | INTRODUCTION— AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ETHNOGRAPHY, AND HISTORY: A MODEL FOR READING |
 | PART ONE— DEFINING GENRE: CULINARY AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
| Chapter One— "I Yam What I Yam": Cooking, Culture, and Colonialism in New Mexico |
| Chapter Two— "Same Boat, Different Stops": Re-collecting Culture in Black Culinary Autobiography |
| PART TWO— NEGOTIATING AUTHORITY: EDITED PERSONAL NARRATIVE |
| Chapter Three— Is That What She Said?: The Politics of Collaborative Autobiography |
| Chapter Four— "You Might Not Like This What I'm Fixin to Say Now": The Speaker as Author(ity) in the Edited Text |
| PART THREE— RETHINKING THE FEMININE SUBJECT: LABOR HISTORY |
| Chapter Five— "Such a Lady": Class-Consciousness and Cultural Practice in Jewish Women's Autobiography |
| Chapter Six— "I Was There in the Front lines, Though I May Not Always Have Been Visible": Self-Determination in the Autobiographies of Jewish Women Labor Organizers |
| CODA |
| Notes |
| WORKS CITED |
| INDEX |