Feminism and Autobiography: Texts, Theories, Methods

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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. Feminism and Autobiography Contents Figures Contributors Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part I Genre 1 Enforced narratives 2 From ‘self-made women’ to ‘women’s made-selves’? 3 Textualisation of the self and gender identity in the life-story 4 Extending autobiography Part II Intersubjectivity 5 Dis/composing the subject 6 Spellbound 7 Our mother’s daughters 8 Matrilineal narratives revisited 9 The global self Part III Memory 10 Subjects-in-time 11 Memory frames 12 Autobiographical times 13 Circa 1959 Part IV Autobiography matters 14 Auto/biography and the actual course of things 15 Doing Sym/Bio/Graphy with Yasna 16 Bringing it home Index