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Telling women's lives : subject/narrator/reader/text / Judy Long.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Long, Judy.
- Series:
- Feminist crosscurrents.
- Feminist crosscurrents
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Biography--History and criticism.
- Women.
- Autobiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 conveying the distinctive conten
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Telling women's lives
- Gender & genre
- Scribbling women
- Translating darkness
- The second person in social science
- Sociological life history
- Feminist biography
- A feminist approach to telling women's lives.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-178) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8147-6522-X
- 0-585-42487-X
- OCLC:
- 782878127
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