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Women taking risks in contemporary autobiographical narratives / edited by Anna Rocca and Kenneth Reeds.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Psychology.
- Women.
- Risk-taking (Psychology).
- Security (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Women Taking Risks in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives explores the nature and effects of risk in self-narrative representations of life events, and is an early step towards confronting the dearth of analysis on this subject. The collection focuses on risk-taking as one of women's articulations of authorial agency displayed in literary, testimonial, photographic, travel and film documentary forms of autobiographical expression in French. Among many themes, the book fosters discussion on matters of courage, strength, resilience, freedom, self-fulfillment, political engagement, compassio
- Contents:
- part I. Risky disclosures
- part II. Risky leaps
- part III. Life as risk.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 7, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-5329-1
- OCLC:
- 859834399
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