Feminism & Autobiography

Texts, Theories, Methods

By: Tess Coslett, Celia Lury, Penny Summerfield

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Paperback | 19 October 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Feminism and Autobiography features essays by leading feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines on the latest developments in autobiographical studies. The central questions addressed include whether autobiography is a genre, and if so what it consists of, and whether autobiography is the product of an internal urge, or of external forms and pressures. 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. The detailed Introduction situates the essays in the collection within the history of feminist engagements with the autobiographical. Trev Broughton, University of York Mary Chamberlain, Oxford Brookes University Marie-Francoise Chanfrault-Duchet, University F. Rabelais Tess Cosslett, Lancaster U

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"Here is an unusually incisive and well-written anthology, covering many of the complexities inherent in women's memories. For me, the analysis of feminists' accounts of their mothers, their reality versus fiction, their evidence of resentment and distortion were especially compelling, original and insightful. I highly recommend this collection." -Carolyn Heilbrun, Columbia University

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