Women's lives/women's times : new essays on auto/biography / edited by Trev Lynn Broughton and Linda Anderson.

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TextSeries: SUNY series, feminist theory in educationPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, 1997.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 291 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0585043647
9780585043647

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women's lives/women's times.DDC classification:

920.72 20

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CT25 .W66 1997eb

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15.45

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Part I : Historians of the self -- "Life has done almost as well as art" : deconstructing the Maimie Papers / Margaretta Jolly -- "A short account of my unprofitable life" : autobiographies of working class women in Britain c. 1775-1845 / Jane Rendall -- "Pondering all these things in her heart" : aspects of secrecy in the autobiographical writings of seventeenth-century Englishwomen / Elspeth Graham [and others] -- Striking rock : the letters of Ray Strachey to her family, 1929-1935 / Johanna Alberti -- Part II : Selves and others -- In search of a voice for Dopdi/ Draupadi : writing the other woman's story out of the "dark continent" / Ranjana Khanna -- Leslie Stephen, Anny Thackeray Ritchie, and the sexual politics of genre : missing her / Trev Lynn Broughton -- What is [not] remembered : the autobiography of Alice B. Toklas / Gabriele Griffin -- The memoirs of Halidé Edib : a Turkish woman writer in exile / Ayse Durakbasa -- Part III : Subjectivities -- Autobiography and orality : the work of modernist women writers / Sabine Vanacker -- Silent witness : memory and omission in Natalia Ginzburg's family sayings / Judith Woolf -- Part IV : Lives in practice -- Their wars / Nicole Ward Jouve -- "Invisible presences" : life-writing and Vera Brittain's testament of friendship / Marion Shaw -- "Tidal edges" in contemporary women's poetry : towards a model of critical empathy / Vicki Bertram.

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Summary: Women's Lives/Women's Times reflects the growing interest in life-writing as a basis for both feminist theorizing and women-centered education. It discusses the many ways in which the study of autobiography can contribute to the theory, practice, and politics of women's studies as curriculum, and to feminist theory more generally. This volume is concerned with the application of theory to text - particularly with the assumptions and discourses of postmodernism - but also in exploring how general theories of the subject do not always fit comfortably with the specifics of autobiographical writing. It also recognizes the challenge women's autobiography offers to theory, taking us, in its complex weave of the personal, the political, and the theoretical, beyond the usual generic and disciplinary boundaries.

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Women's Lives/Women's Times reflects the growing interest in life-writing as a basis for both feminist theorizing and women-centered education. It discusses the many ways in which the study of autobiography can contribute to the theory, practice, and politics of women's studies as curriculum, and to feminist theory more generally. This volume is concerned with the application of theory to text - particularly with the assumptions and discourses of postmodernism - but also in exploring how general theories of the subject do not always fit comfortably with the specifics of autobiographical writing. It also recognizes the challenge women's autobiography offers to theory, taking us, in its complex weave of the personal, the political, and the theoretical, beyond the usual generic and disciplinary boundaries.

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