Women And Autobiography In The Twentieth Century

Author : Linda R. Anderson
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Autobiography in the Twentieth Century written by Linda R. Anderson and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1997 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on the variety of forms twentieth-century autobiographical writing by women has taken and looks closely at the different theoretical issues and critical interpretations they have generated. The author argues that the problem posed by a feminist criticism of autobiography is how to avoid speaking for or about the very discourses through which women themselves are attempting to speak. How can theory resist appropriating the female subject at the very point of her emergence?

Author : Susan Neunzig Cahill
Publisher : Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780060969981
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Women's Lives written by Susan Neunzig Cahill and published by Perennial. This book was released on 1994 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers selections from the autobiographical writings of modern American women authors

Author : C. Etherington-Wright
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230595022
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Professions and Discourse written by C. Etherington-Wright and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing ninety professional women's autobiographies from 1900-1920, the first part of this book concentrates on the endeavours of groups such as headmistresses, doctors, nurses, artists and writers to record their own lives, while the second part examines frontispiece photos, prefatory marginalia and the role of silences in autobiography.

Author : Susan Ware
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674014886
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notable American Women written by Susan Ware and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest volume brings the project up to date, with entries on almost 500 women whose death dates fall between 1976 and 1999. You will find here stars of the golden ages of radio, film, dance, and television; scientists and scholars; civil rights activists and religious leaders; Native American craftspeople and world-renowned artists. For each subject, the volume offers a biographical essay by a distinguished authority that integrates the woman's personal life with her professional achievements set in the context of larger historical developments.

Author : Sidonie Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subjectivity, Identity, and the Body written by Sidonie Smith and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sheila Rowbotham
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781683743
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dreamers of a New Day written by Sheila Rowbotham and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1880s to the 1920s, a profound social awakening among women extended the possibilities of change far beyond the struggle for the vote. Amid the growth of globalized trade, mass production, immigration and urban slums, American and British women broke with custom and prejudice. Taking off corsets, forming free unions, living communally, buying ethically, joining trade unions, doing social work in settlements, these "dreamers of a new day" challenged ideas about sexuality, mothering, housework, the economy and citizenship. Drawing on a wealth of research, Sheila Rowbotham has written a groundbreaking new history that shows how women created much of the fabric of modern life. These innovative dreamers raised questions that remain at the forefront of our twenty-first-century lives.

Author : Lingzhen Wang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804750059
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personal Matters written by Lingzhen Wang and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies identity formation and transformation in twentieth-century China by focusing on women's autobiographical writing.

Author : Sidonie Smith
Publisher : Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780608050447
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subjectivity, Identity, and the Body written by Sidonie Smith and published by Books on Demand. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ursula Fanning
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683930320
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Twentieth Century written by Ursula Fanning and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the centrality of the autobiographical enterprise to Italian women’s writing through the twentieth century—a century that has frequently been referred to as the century of the self. Ursula Fanning addresses the thorny issue of essentialism potentially involved in underlining links between women’s writing and autobiographical modes, and ultimately rejects it in favor of an argument based on the cultural, linguistic, and literary marginalization of women writers within the Italian context. It is concerned with Italian women writers’ various ways of grappling with constructions of subjectivity throughout the century and sets out to explore them. Fanning reads autobiographical writing as subject to many of the same constraints as fiction and, in doing so, draws attention to the significance of the recurring use of the terms “pure” and “impure” in many critical and theoretical discussions of the autobiographical (where “pure” is used to suggest a truthful representation of a life, while “impure” suggests the messy undertaking of mixing lived experience with fiction). Recurring patterns and paradigms are found in the works of the various writers considered (eighteen in all), and these paradigms are analyzed through close readings of their works. These close readings offer insights into approaches to the constructions of subjectivity in the narratives and are informed by feminist theories. The chapters focus on selves in relationship, taking their lead from the patterns unfolding in the writers’ work, hence the subjects are constructed as daughters (with different views of the self in relation to fathers and mothers), within the confines of the romantic relationship (which involves reconsiderations and rewritings of the romance plot), as maternal subjects, and as writers (with an eye on their relationship to the literary canon, as well as to the relationship with readers). This book argues that there is such a thing as gendered subjectivity and that its constructions may be traced through the texts analyzed.

Author : Emilie Carles
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140169652
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Life of Her Own written by Emilie Carles and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in France in 1977, this autobiography vivifies the captivating Carles from her peasant origins in a tiny Alpine village through her work as a teacher, farmer, mother, feminist and political activist.