Women's Lives/Women's Times - New Essays on Auto/Biography

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.

About the author

Trev Lynn Broughton is Lecturer in Women's Studies at the Centre for Women's Studies, University of York. Linda Anderson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Product details

• Assisted by: Linda Anderson (Editor), Trev Lynn Broughton (Editor)
• Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.05.1997
• EAN: 9780791433973
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-3397-3
• No. of pages: 291
• Weight: 590 g
• Series: Feminist Theory in Education; Suny Series, Feminist Theory i; Feminist Theory in Education
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories