UID:
almafu_9958078603102883
Umfang:
1 online resource (500 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-520-92521-1
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1-59734-738-8
Inhalt:
Marilyn Booth's elegantly conceived study reveals the Arabic tradition of life-writing in an entirely new light. Though biography had long been male-authored, in the late nineteenth century short sketches by and about women began to appear in biographical dictionaries and women's journals.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Technical Note; Prologue; 1. scattered pearls and mistresses of seclusion; 2. siting biography: a politics of address; 3. exemplar and exception; 4. may our daughters listen: readers, writers, teachers; 5. catherine the great's embroidery and maria mitchell's stewpot; 6. jeanne d'arc, egyptian nationalist; 7. from sober to salacious; 8. famous wombs and women's memories; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
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Issued also in print.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-520-22420-5
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-520-22419-1
Sprache:
Englisch
