Interpreting women's lives : feminist theory and personal narratives / edited by the Personal Narratives Group, Joy Webster Barbre [and others]. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, �1989. - 1 online resource (viii, 277 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Origins -- Origins / Context -- "Conditions not of her own making" / Liberating the subject? : autobiography and "women's history" : a reading of The diaries of Hannah Cullwick / The context of personal narrative : reflections on "not either an experimental doll " : the separate worlds of three South African women / Dissonance and harmony : the symbolic function of abortion in activists' life stories / What's a life story got to do with it? / Narrative forms -- Forms that transform / Gender and narrative form in French and German working-class autobiographies / Personal Narratives Group -- Personal Narratives Group -- Julia Swindells -- Shula Marks -- Faye Ginsburg -- Karen Brodkin Sacks -- Personal Narratives Group -- Mary Jo Maynes. pt. 1. pt. 2. pt. 3. Poetry and truth : Elisa von der Recke's sentimental autobiography / Considering more than a single reader / Nineteenth-century black women's spiritual autobiographies : religious faith and self-empowerment / Personal narratives, dynasties, and women's campaigns : two examples from Africa / Transformative subjectivity in the writings of Christa Wolf / Women's personal narratives : myths, experiences, and emotions / Narrator and interpreter -- Whose voice? / "I'd have been a man" : politics and the labor process in producing personal narratives / Katherine R. Goodman -- Elizabeth Hampsten -- Nellie Y. McKay -- Marcia Wright -- Sandra Frieden -- Luisa Passerini -- Personal Narratives Group -- Marjorie Mbilinyi. pt. 4. "What the wind won't take away" : the genesis of Nisa : the life and words of a!Kung woman / The double frame of life history in the work of Barbara Myerhoff / Truths -- Truths / Contributors -- Index. Marjorie Shostak -- Riv-Ellen Prell -- Personal Narratives Group -- pt. 5.

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"Interpreting Women's Lives offers rich insights into the ways that women's voices and life stories can inform scholarly research and expand our understanding of both the shared experience of gender and the profound differences among women."--Publisher's description.


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Women's studies--Biographical methods.
Autobiography--Women authors.
Feminist criticism.
�Etudes sur les femmes--M�ethode biographique.
�Ecrits de femmes autobiographiques--Histoire et critique.
Critique f�eministe.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Autobiography--Women authors.
Feminist criticism.
Women's studies--Biographical methods.
Autobiografische Literatur
Frauenforschung
Aufsatzsammlung
Biografie
Feminismus
Schriftstellerin
Autobiografie
Vrouwen.
Autobiografie�en.
Frau.
Autobiographies as Topic.
Women.
Women--psychology.

Autobiography Women authors Feminist criticism Women and literature Women's studies Biographical methods


Autobiographies.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Autobiographies.

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