Interpreting Womens Lives Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives [Paperback]

... rich and thought-provoking... That kind of collaborative writing is feminist scholarship at its best, and exhaustingly difficult. The Womens Review of Books

A substantial contribution to womens studies and autobiographical criticism. Choice

... exciting.... will lead to new insight and appreciation of the variety and complexity of womens lives. Feminist Collections

... provocative... American Ethnologist

... rich in thought-provoking insights into the particular ways women have been socialized and the individual routes through which they have successfully resisted roles and paradigms of behavior inimical to the development of a robust sense of self. Women and Language

... very fine collection of essays... Auto/Biography Studies

The essays deal with a fascinatingly broad palette of personal narrative types... This book is to be recommended to anyone interested in feminist research... Monatshefte

This groundbreaking multidisciplinary and multicultural examination of womens oral and written documents offers rich insights into the ways that womens voices and life stories can inform scholarly research. The book expands our understanding of both the shared experience of gender and the profound differences among women.

Acknowledments

Part One: Origins

Origins: Personal Narratives Group

Part Two: Context

Conditions Not of Her Own Making
Personal Narratives Group

Liberating the Subject? Autobiography and Womens History : A Reading of The Diaries of Hannah Cullwich
Julia Swindells

The Context of Personal Narrative: Reflections on Not Either an Experimental Doll The Separate Worlds of Three South African Women
Shula Marks

Dissonance and Harmony: The Symbolic Function of Abortion in Activists Life Stories
Faye Ginsburg

Whats a Life Story Got to Do with It?
Karen Brodkin Sacks

Part Three: Narrative Forms

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