The Unsociable Sociability of Women's Lifewriting [Hardcover]

By investigating women lifewriters' complex quest to distinguish themselves both within and from institutions and communities, this volume uses Kant's concept of unsociable sociability to formulate a divided sense of self at the heart of women's lifewriting, offering a provocative response to the notion of the relational female subject.List of Illustrations Acknowledgements/Preface Notes on Contributors Femmes a Part: Unsociable Sociability, Women, Lifewriting; L.D'Arcens & A.Collett Je, Christine: Christine de Pizan's Autobiographical Topoi; L.D'Arcens Law, Gender and Print Culture in the Life Writing of Eliza Frances Robertson; S.Ailwood Some Stories Need to be Told, Then Told Again: Yvonne Johnson& Rudy Wiebe; M.Jacklin The Scripted Life of Peig Sayers; I.Lucchitti Yet thou did Deliver Me: The Exemplary Life of Alice Thornton; A.Lear Size Matters: The Oppositional Self-Portraiture of Emily Carr; A.Collett Waif Wander: Mary Fortune's Life in the Colonial Periodical Press; M.Brown You for Whom I Wrote: Ren?e Vivien, H.D. and the Roman ? Clef; M.Boyde Writing Food Writing Fiction Writing Life: Marion Halligan's Memoirs ; D.Jones Writing as Cultural Negotiation: Suneeta Peres da Costa and Alice Pung; W.Ommundsen The Language of Recognition: Carolyn Slaughter and Alexandra Fuller; T.S.da Silva Selected Bibliography Index

'The volume advances the established feminist project to make visible women whose writing may not be well known, and it accomplishes this purpose admirably within the field of lifewriting.' - Review of English Studies

SARAH AILWOOD Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, the University of Canberra, AustraliaMELISSA BOYDE Research Fellow, University of Wollongong, AustraliaMICHAEL JACKLIN Associate Research Fellow, University of Wollongong, AustraliaDOROTHY JONES Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Wollongong, AustraliaANNE LEAR Senior Lecturer in the English Literatures Program, University of Wollongong, AustraliaIRENE LUCCHITTI FellSQ