Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 185 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0814750745
Series Statement:
Feminist crosscurrents
Content:
For centuries, the "great man" format and masculine discourse of biography and autobiography have eclipsed women. If we accept this history, we remain ignorant of "Lady Sarashina," a Japanese woman of the Han period, whose book survives from the 11th century. We overlook Margaret Cavendish and Dame Julian, two early English autobiographers. And we fail to consider sufficiently slave narratives, oral histories, or lesbian "coming out" stories. Telling Women's Lives assesses existing traditions of autobiography and biography in search of a method capable of conveyin
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-178) and index
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Telling Women's Lives; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Telling Women's Lives; Chapter 2: Gender and Genre; Chapter 3: Scribbling Women; Chapter 4: Translating Darkness; Chapter 5: The Second Person in Social Science; Chapter 6: Sociological Life History; Chapter 7: Feminist Biography; Chapter 8: A Feminist Approach to Telling Women's Lives; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814750742
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Telling Women's Lives : Subject/Narrator/Reader/Text
Language:
English
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