| Description |
xiii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Germaine Brée -- Acknowledgments / Bella Brodzki and Celeste Schenck -- The other voice : autobiographies of women writers / Mary G. Mason -- Writing fictions : women's autobiography in France / Nancy K. Miller -- Non-autobiographies of "privileged" women : England and America / Carolyn G. Heilbrun -- Lesbian identity and autobiographical difference[s] / Biddy Martin -- "Not just a personal story" : women's Testimonios and the plural self / Doris Sommer -- In other words : native American women's autobiography / Helen Carr -- Between two worlds : the formation of a turn-of-the-century Egyptian feminist / Leila Ahmed -- Race, gender, and cultural context in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust tracks on a road / Nellie Y. McKay |
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Structures of liberation : female experience and autobiographical form in Quebec / Mary Jean Green -- Revisions of labor in Margaret Oliphant's autobiography / Gail Twersky Reimer -- "A nutmeg nestled inside its covering of mace" : Audre Lorde's Zami / Claudine Raynaud -- Mothers, displacement, and language in the autobiographies of Nathalie Sarraute and Christa Wolf / Bella Brodzki -- Métissage, emancipation, and female textuality in two Francophone writers / Françoise Lionnet -- All of a piece : women's poetry and autobiography / Celeste Schenck -- Elisabeth to Meta : epistolary autobiography and the postulation of the self / Katherine R. Goodman -- Taking her life-history : the autobiography of Charlotte Salomon / Mary Lowenthal Felstiner -- Seeing subjects : women directors and cinematic autobiography / Catherine Portuges |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Autobiography.
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Women -- Biography.
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Women's studies -- Biographical methods.
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| Author |
Brodzki, Bella.
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Schenck, Celeste Marguerite.
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| LC no. |
88047718 |
| ISBN |
0801422086 |
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0801495202 |
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