Women's Lives/Women's Times: New Essays on Auto/BiographyTrev Lynn Broughton, Linda R. Anderson 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. |
Contents
Life Has Done Almost as Well as Art Deconstructing The Maimic Papers | 9 |
A Short Account of My Unprofitable Life Autobiographies of Working Class Women in Britain c 17751845 | 31 |
Pondering All These Things in Her Heart Aspects of Secrecy in the Autobiographical Writings of SeventeenthCentury Englishwomen | 51 |
Striking Rock The Letters of Ray Strachey to Her Family 19291935 | 73 |
Introduction | 97 |
In Search of a Voice for DopdiDraupadi Writing the Other Womans Story Out of the Dark Continent | 103 |
Leslie Stephen Anny Thackeray Ritchie and the Sexual Politics of Genre Missing her | 121 |
What Is Not Remembered The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas | 143 |
Autobiography and Orality The Work of Modernist Women Writers | 179 |
Silent Witness Memory and Omission in Natalia Ginzburgs Family Sayings | 203 |
Introduction | 227 |
Their Wars | 231 |
Invisible Presences LifeWriting and Vera Britains Testament of Friendship | 243 |
Tidal Edges in Contemporary Womens Poetry Towards a Model of Critical Empathy | 259 |
Contributors | 283 |
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