Feminism and autobiography : texts, theories, methods / edited by Tess Cosslett, Celia Lury, and Penny Summerfield.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cosslett, Tess.

Lury, Celia.

Summerfield, Penny.

Series:

Transformations.

Transformations : thinking through feminism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's studies--Biographical methods.

Women's studies.

Autobiography--Women authors.

Autobiography.

Feminist criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 265 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Featuring essays by leading feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines, this key text explores the latest developments in autobiographical studies. The collection is structured around the inter-linked concepts of genre, inter-subjectivity and memory. Whilst exemplifying the very different levels of autobiographical activity going on in feminist studies, the contributions chart a movement from autobiography as genre to autobiography as cultural practice, and from the analysis of autobiographical texts to a preoccupation with autobiography as method.

Contents:

chapter Introduction

part Part I Genre

chapter 1 Enforced narratives: stories of another self C A RO LY N STEEDMAN

Stories of another self Histories of autobiography and histories of the self / Carolyn Steedman

chapter 2 From 'self-made women to women's made-selves�? Audit selves, simulation and surveillance in the rise of public woman LIZ S TA NLEY

Audit selves, simulation and surveillance in the rise of public woman / Liz Stanley

chapter 3 Textualisation of the self and gender identity in the life-story / Marie-Fran�oise Chanfrault-Duchet To the memory of Th�oduline, who died in 1997 and to Alice, who celebrated her

chapter 4 Extending autobiography: a discussion of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar M A RY E VA N S

A discussion of Sylvia Plath's / The Bell Jar Mary Evans

part Part II Intersubjectivity

chapter 5 Dis/composing the subject

Intersubjectivities in oral history / Penny Summerfield

chapter 6 Spellbound: audience, identity and self in black women's narrative discourse GWENDO LY N ETTER - LEWIS

Audience, identity and self in black women's narrative discourse / Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis

chapter 7 Our mother's daughters: autobiographical inheritance through stories of gender and class SARA S C OT T AND SUE S C OT T

Autobiographical inheritance through stories of gender and class / Sara Scott

chapter 8 Matrilineal narratives revisited / Tess Cosslett

chapter 9 The global self: narratives of Caribbean migrant women M A RY CHAMBERLAIN

Narratives of Caribbean migrant women / Mary Chamberlain

part Part III Memory

chapter 10 Subjects-in-time: slavery and African-American women's autobiographies ALISON EAS TO N

Slavery and African-American women's autobiographies / Alison Easton

chapter 11 Memory frames

The role of concepts and cognition in telling life-stories / Magda Michielsens

chapter 12 Autobiographical times SUSAN NA H RADS TO N E / Susannah Radstone

chapter 13 Circa 1959 NA NCY K. MILLER / Nancy K. Miller

part Part IV Autobiography matters

chapter 14 Auto/biography and the actual course of things TREV B RO UGH TO N / Trev Broughton

chapter 15 Doing Sym/Bio/Graphy with Yasna / Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes

chapter 16 Bringing it home: autobiography and contradiction RU T H McE L ROY

Autobiography and contradiction / Ruth McElroy.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-57361-8

9786610402151

0-203-19002-5

1-134-57362-6

1-280-40215-6

0-203-18599-4

9780203185995

OCLC:

49569927