... within such an oppressive system. The story details the author's decision to work in the wilderness as a means of seeking spiritual transformation, but, instead, she finds herself confronting the same intersections of class and gender that she had been raised with in her hometown. When I was 24, I went...

... and Permissions website at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintinfo.asp 2015 Autoethnography Personal narrative Race Class Sexuality Robin M. Boylorn's Sweetwater makes me think about how I have come to live the life I live. I am often ashamed of Danville, IL, a factory and farming town...