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Women, Autobiography, Theory

Women, Autobiography, Theory
Author: Sidonie Smith
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 546
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780299158446

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The first comprehensive guide to the burgeoning field of women's autobiography. Essays from 39 prominent critics and writers explore narratives across the centuries and from around the globe. A list of more than 200 women's autobiographies and a comprehensive bibliography provide invaluable information for scholars, teachers, and readers.


The Private Self

The Private Self
Author: Shari Benstock
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1988
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780807842188

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This collection of twelve essays discusses the principles and practices of women's autobiographical writing in the United States, England, and France from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Employing feminist and poststructuralist methodologies, t


Feminism & Autobiography

Feminism & Autobiography
Author: Tess Coslett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2002-01-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134573626

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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.


Women and Autobiography

Women and Autobiography
Author: Martine Watson Brownley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780842027021

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An overview of women's autobiography, providing historical background and contemporary criticism along with selections from a range of autobiographies by women. It seeks to provide a broad introduction to the major questions dominating autobiographical scholarship today.


Interfaces

Interfaces
Author: Sidonie Smith
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780472068142

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Charts the ways that woman artists have represented themselves and their life stories


Autobiographics

Autobiographics
Author: Leigh Gilmore
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1994
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780801480614

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In the first comprehensive feminist critique of autobiography as a genre, Leigh Gilmore incorporates writings that have not up to now been considered part of the autobiographical tradition. Offering subtle and perceptive readings of a wide variety of texts-- from the confessions of medieval mystics to contemporary works by Chicana and lesbian writers-- she identifies an innovative practice of "autobiographics" which covers the entire spectrum of women's self-representation.


De-Colonizing the Subject

De-Colonizing the Subject
Author: Sidonie Smith
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 518
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 1452902542

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Life/Lines

Life/Lines
Author: Bella Brodzki
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2019-05-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501745565

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Autobiography raises a vital issue in feminist critical theory today: the imperative need to situate the female subject. Life/Lines, a collection of essays on women's autobiography, attempts to meet this need.


The Auto/biographical I

The Auto/biographical I
Author: Liz Stanley
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1992
Genre: American prose literature
ISBN: 9780719046490

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This feminist literary study discusses postmodern ideas about the self, particularly about the way in which selves are constructed by biography and autobiography. The author particularly examines the manner in which women write about themselves.


Women's Lives/Women's Times

Women's Lives/Women's Times
Author: Trev Lynn Broughton
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1997-05-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0791497704

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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.