Thinking through the mothers : reimagining women's biographies / Janet Beizer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beizer, Janet L., 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Biography--History and criticism.

Women.

Women--Biography--Authorship.

Biography as a literary form.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

If questions of subjectivity and identification are at stake in all biographical writing, they are particularly trenchant for contemporary women biographers of women. Often, their efforts to exhume buried lives in hope of finding spiritual foremothers.

Contents:

Cat's cradle : transfiguring women's lives

Unwrapping the mummy : in search of Kuchuk Hanem

Writing origins : George Sand as the story of our life

A different story : in dialogue with Huguette Bouchardeau

One's own : reflections on motherhood, owning, and adoption

Mothers and lovers, or, The great banalities of existence : Colette's La naissance du jour.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8014-5836-6

OCLC:

726824360