Feminism & Autobiography - Texts, Theories, Methods

This book features essays by leading feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines on the latest developments in autobiographical studies. The collection is structured around the concepts of genre, inter-subjectivity and memory.

List of contents

Part 1: Genre 1. Enforced Narratives: Stories of Another Self 2. From 'Self-Made Women' to 'Women's Made-Selves'?: Audit Selves, Simulation and Surveillance in the Rise of Public Women 3. Textualisation of the Self and Gender Identity in the Life Story 4. Extending Autobiography: A Discussion of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar Part 2: Intersubjectivity5. Composure and Performance in Oral History Testimony 6. Spellbound: Audience, Identity and Self in Black Women's Narrative Discourse 7. Our Mother's Daughters: Autobiographical Inheritance Through Stories of Gender and Class 8. Matrilineal Narratives Revisited 9. The Global Self: Narratives of Caribbean Migrant Women Part 3: Memory 10. Subjects in Time: Slavery and African-American Women's Autobiographies 11. Memory Frames: The Role of Concepts and Cognition in Telling Life Stories 12. Autobiographical Times 13. Circa 1959

About the author

Tess Coslett, Celia Lury, Penny Summerfield

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Tess Coslett, Coslett Tess, Celia Lury, Lury Celia, Penny Summerfield, Summerfield Penny
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.10.2000
• EAN: 9780415232012
• ISBN: 978-0-415-23201-2
• No. of pages: 284
• Weight: 690 g
• Series: Transformations
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, Biography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, Feminism & feminist theory, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory, Literature: history and criticism