Feminism and Autobiography: Texts, Theories, MethodsTess Cosslett, Celia Lury, Penny Summerfield 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
stories of another self | 25 |
From selfmade women to womens madeselves? Audit | 40 |
Textualisation of the self and gender identity in the lifestory | 61 |
a discussion of Sylvia Plaths | 76 |
intersubjectivities in oral history | 91 |
audience identity and self in black womens | 107 |
autobiographical inheritance | 128 |
Matrilineal narratives revisited | 141 |
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Feminism & Autobiography: Texts, Theories, Methods Tess Coslett,Celia Lury,Penny Summerfield Limited preview - 2002 |
Feminism & Autobiography: Texts, Theories, Methods Tess Coslett,Celia Lury,Penny Summerfield Limited preview - 2002 |
Feminism and Autobiography: Texts, Theories, Methods Tess Cosslett,Celia Lury,Penny Summerfield No preview available - 2000 |
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