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Interpreting women's lives : feminist theory and personal narratives / edited by the Personal Narratives Group, Joy Webster Barbre [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, �1989.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 277 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585000751
  • 9780585000756
  • 9781282078796
  • 1282078798
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Interpreting women's lives.DDC classification:
  • 305.4/2 19
LOC classification:
  • HQ1185 .I58 1989eb
Other classification:
  • 71.33
  • EC 2220
  • m 210.3
  • m 256
  • 71.33.
Online resources:
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- pt. 1. Origins -- Origins / Personal Narratives Group -- pt. 2. Context -- "Conditions not of her own making" / Personal Narratives Group -- Liberating the subject? : autobiography and "women's history" : a reading of The diaries of Hannah Cullwick / Julia Swindells -- The context of personal narrative : reflections on "not either an experimental doll " : the separate worlds of three South African women / Shula Marks -- Dissonance and harmony : the symbolic function of abortion in activists' life stories / Faye Ginsburg -- What's a life story got to do with it? / Karen Brodkin Sacks -- pt. 3. Narrative forms -- Forms that transform / Personal Narratives Group -- Gender and narrative form in French and German working-class autobiographies / Mary Jo Maynes.
Poetry and truth : Elisa von der Recke's sentimental autobiography / Katherine R. Goodman -- Considering more than a single reader / Elizabeth Hampsten -- Nineteenth-century black women's spiritual autobiographies : religious faith and self-empowerment / Nellie Y. McKay -- Personal narratives, dynasties, and women's campaigns : two examples from Africa / Marcia Wright -- Transformative subjectivity in the writings of Christa Wolf / Sandra Frieden -- Women's personal narratives : myths, experiences, and emotions / Luisa Passerini -- pt. 4. Narrator and interpreter -- Whose voice? / Personal Narratives Group -- "I'd have been a man" : politics and the labor process in producing personal narratives / Marjorie Mbilinyi.
"What the wind won't take away" : the genesis of Nisa : the life and words of a!Kung woman / Marjorie Shostak -- The double frame of life history in the work of Barbara Myerhoff / Riv-Ellen Prell -- pt. 5. Truths -- Truths / Personal Narratives Group -- Contributors -- Index.
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Summary: "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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- pt. 1. Origins -- Origins / Personal Narratives Group -- pt. 2. Context -- "Conditions not of her own making" / Personal Narratives Group -- Liberating the subject? : autobiography and "women's history" : a reading of The diaries of Hannah Cullwick / Julia Swindells -- The context of personal narrative : reflections on "not either an experimental doll " : the separate worlds of three South African women / Shula Marks -- Dissonance and harmony : the symbolic function of abortion in activists' life stories / Faye Ginsburg -- What's a life story got to do with it? / Karen Brodkin Sacks -- pt. 3. Narrative forms -- Forms that transform / Personal Narratives Group -- Gender and narrative form in French and German working-class autobiographies / Mary Jo Maynes.

Poetry and truth : Elisa von der Recke's sentimental autobiography / Katherine R. Goodman -- Considering more than a single reader / Elizabeth Hampsten -- Nineteenth-century black women's spiritual autobiographies : religious faith and self-empowerment / Nellie Y. McKay -- Personal narratives, dynasties, and women's campaigns : two examples from Africa / Marcia Wright -- Transformative subjectivity in the writings of Christa Wolf / Sandra Frieden -- Women's personal narratives : myths, experiences, and emotions / Luisa Passerini -- pt. 4. Narrator and interpreter -- Whose voice? / Personal Narratives Group -- "I'd have been a man" : politics and the labor process in producing personal narratives / Marjorie Mbilinyi.

"What the wind won't take away" : the genesis of Nisa : the life and words of a!Kung woman / Marjorie Shostak -- The double frame of life history in the work of Barbara Myerhoff / Riv-Ellen Prell -- pt. 5. Truths -- Truths / Personal Narratives Group -- Contributors -- Index.

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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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