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Feminism and autobiography : texts, theories, methods

Author: Tess Cosslett; Celia Lury; Penny Summerfield
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Series: Transformations.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This book features essays by leading feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines on the latest developments in autobiographical studies. The collection is structured around the linked concepts of genre, inter-subjectivity and memory. While exemplifying the very different levels of autobiographical activity going on in feminist studies, the contributions chart a movement from autobiography as genre to  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Tess Cosslett; Celia Lury; Penny Summerfield
ISBN: 0415232015 9780415232012 0415232023 9780415232029
OCLC Number: 43985326
Description: xvi, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Enforced narratives : stories of another self / Carolyn Steedman --
From 'self-made women' to 'women's made-selves'? : Audit selves, simulation and surveillance in the rise of public woman / Liz Stanley --
Textualisation of the self and gender identity in the life-story / Marie-Franc̦oise Chanfrault-Duchet --
Extending autobiography : a discussion of Sylvia Plath's The bell jar / Mary Evans --
Dis/composing the subject intersubjectivities in oral history / Penny Summerfield --
Spellbound : audience, identity and self in black women's narrative discourse / Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis --
Our mother's daughters : autobiographical inheritance through stories of gender and class / Sara Scott and Sue Scott --
Matrilineal narratives revisited / Tess Cosslett --
Global self : narratives of Caribbean migrant women / Mary Chamberlain --
Subjects-in-time : slavery and African-American women's autobiographies / Alison Easton --
Memory frames : the role of concepts and cognition in telling life-stories / Magda Michielsens --
Autobiographical times / Susannah Radstone --
Circa 1959 / Nancy K. Miller --
Auto/biography and the actual course of things / Trev Broughton --
Doing sym/bio/graphy with yasna / Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes --
Bringing it home : autobiography and contradiction / Ruth McElroy.
Series Title: Transformations.
Responsibility: edited by Tess Cosslett, Celia Lury, and Penny Summerfield.
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This book features essays by leading feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines on the latest developments in autobiographical studies. The collection is structured around the concepts of genre,  Read more...

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