Feminism & Autobiography - Texts, Theories, Methods (Hardcover)

Contents:
Part One: Genre 1. Enforced narratives: stories of another self Carolyn Steedman 2. From "self-made women" to "women's made-selves"? Audit selves, simulation and surveillance in the rise of public women Liz Stanley 3. Textualisation of the self and gender identity in the life story Marie-Francoise Chanfrault-Duchet 4. Extendign autobiolgraphy: a discussion of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar Mary Evans
Part Two: Intersubjectivity 5. Composure and performance in oral history testimony Penny Summerfield 6. Spellbound: audience, identity and self in black women's narrative discourse Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis 7. Our mother's daughters: autobiographical inheritance through stories of gender and class Sara Scott and Sue Scott 8. Matrilineal narratives revisited Tess Cosslett 9. The global self: narratives of caribbean migrant women Mary Chamberlain
Part Three: Memory 10. Subjects in time: slavery and African-American women's autobiographies Alison Easton 11. Memory frames: the role of concepts and cognition in telling life stories Magda Michielsens 12. Autobiographical times Susannah Radstone 13. Circa 1959 Nancy Miller