ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Genre
chapter 1|15 pages
Enforced narratives: stories of another self C A RO LY N STEEDMAN
Stories of another self Histories of autobiography and histories of the self
chapter 2|21 pages
From ‘self-made women’ to ‘women’s made-selves’? Audit selves, simulation and surveillance in the rise of public woman LIZ S TA NLEY
Audit selves, simulation and surveillance in the rise of public woman
chapter 4|13 pages
Extending autobiography: a discussion of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar M A RY E VA N S
A discussion of Sylvia Plath’s
part |2 pages
Part II Intersubjectivity
chapter 7|13 pages
Our mother’s daughters: autobiographical inheritance through stories of gender and class SARA S C OT T AND SUE S C OT T
Autobiographical inheritance through stories of gender and class
chapter 9|13 pages
The global self: narratives of Caribbean migrant women M A RY CHAMBERLAIN
Narratives of Caribbean migrant women
part |2 pages
Part III Memory
chapter 10|14 pages
Subjects-in-time: slavery and African-American women’s autobiographies ALISON EAS TO N
Slavery and African-American women’s autobiographies
part |2 pages
Part IV Autobiography matters
