| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 239 pages) |
| Series |
Breaking Feminist Waves |
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Breaking feminist waves.
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| Contents |
Writing Feminist Lives; Contents; 1 Introduction; Ideological Battles of the 1990s; The Biographies; Reading Biography; Chapter Outline; Notes; 2 A Question of Authority; The Personal is Political; Twentieth-Century Criticism of Autobiography; Realist Biography; Writing Women's History; Notes; 3 Negotiating the Tradition-Feminist Realist Biography; Historicizing the Women's Movement in Biography; The Unhappy American Housewife; A Reluctant Socialist Heroine; A Woman of Profound Contradictions; The Autonomous Woman; Revamped Femme Fatale; Notes |
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4 Breaking New Ground-Feminist Exemplary BiographyEmancipation Narratives and Feminist Literary Criticism; A Bunny's Tale; The Embodiment of an Effective Story; Talk About a Dream Team!; Notes; 5 Deconstructing the Life-Feminist Poststructuralist Biography; Poststructuralist Perspectives; Feminist Re/constructions; Le deuxième sexe/The Second Sex; The Autobiographies; Life as an Intertextual Network; Everybody's Beauvoir; Notes; 6 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book draws attention to the controversy that surrounds Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, and Simone de Beauvoir's lives and the important role that their life stories have played in their feminist writing. Directly and indirectly, the four women have contributed to battles over feminism's meaning through autobiographically informed political writing. Inevitably, therefore, their biographers are also participants in these battles, yet not always on the same side as their subjects. Writing Feminist Lives introduces a further fold of nuance into considerations of biography and feminism by showing that the biographers of the four women have made methodological choices that reflect their loyalty to, or their scepticism towards, competing ideological definitions of the exemplary feminist life |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index |
| Notes |
Descritption based on print version record |
| Subject |
Friedan, Betty.
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Greer, Germaine, 1939-
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Steinem, Gloria
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Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.
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| SUBJECT |
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986 fast |
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Friedan, Betty fast |
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Greer, Germaine, 1939- fast |
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Steinem, Gloria fast |
| Subject |
Feminists -- Biography
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Feminists.
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Biographers.
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feminists (people)
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biographers.
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Gender studies, gender groups.
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Literary studies: from c 1900.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Biographers
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Feminists
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Biografie
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Feministin
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Society.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783319471785 |
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3319471783 |
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3319471775 |
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9783319471778 |
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