ISBN:
0585000751
,
9780585000756
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 277 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg.]
Parallel Title:
Print version Interpreting women's lives
DDC:
305.4/2
Keywords:
Feminist criticism
;
Autobiography Women authors
;
Women's studies Biographical methods
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Description / Table of Contents:
"What the wind won't take away" : the genesis of Nisa : the life and words of a!Kung woman / Marjorie ShostakThe double frame of life history in the work of Barbara Myerhoff / Riv-Ellen Prell -- Truths / Personal Narratives Group.
Description / Table of Contents:
Origins / Personal Narratives Group"Conditions not of her own making" / Personal Narratives Group -- Liberating the subject? : autobiography and "women's history" : a reading of The diaries of Hannah Cullwick / Julia Swindells -- The context of personal narrative : reflections on "not either an experimental doll " : the separate worlds of three South African women / Shula Marks -- Dissonance and harmony : the symbolic function of abortion in activists' life stories / Faye Ginsburg -- What's a life story got to do with it? / Karen Brodkin Sacks -- Forms that transform / Personal Narratives Group -- Gender and narrative form in French and German working-class autobiographies / Mary Jo Maynes.
Description / Table of Contents:
Poetry and truth : Elisa von der Recke's sentimental autobiography / Katherine R. GoodmanConsidering more than a single reader / Elizabeth Hampsten -- Nineteenth-century black women's spiritual autobiographies : religious faith and self-empowerment / Nellie Y. McKay -- Personal narratives, dynasties, and women's campaigns : two examples from Africa / Marcia Wright -- Transformative subjectivity in the writings of Christa Wolf / Sandra Frieden -- Women's personal narratives : myths, experiences, and emotions / Luisa Passerini -- Whose voice? / Personal Narratives Group -- "I'd have been a man" : politics and the labor process in producing personal narratives / Marjorie Mbilinyi.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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