Shirley Neuman

Autobiography and Questions of Gender

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1991. Addressing the ways in which the ideology of gender and its social construction determine autobiographical self-representations, the essays here consider several women's works in the light of the social and historical conditions which enabled their production.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781138941274
• ISBN-10: 1138941271
• Artikelnr.: 42742062

Autorenporträt

Shirley Neuman

Inhaltsangabe

1. Autobiography and Questions of Gender: An Introduction Shirley Neuman
2. Auto/Bio/History: Modern Midwifery Lynn Z. Bloom 3. Refracting Selves:
Kate Millett's The Basement Jeanne Perrault 4. From the Inside Out: Lily
Briscoe a Self Portrait: And Autobiography by Mary Meigs Susanna Egan 5. A
Signature of Lesbian Autobiography: 'Gertrice/Altrude' Leigh Gilmore 6.
Women's Autobiography: The Self at Stake? T. L. Broughton 7. Engendered
Autobiographies: The Diary as a Feminine Form Rebecca Hogan 8. Delivery:
The Cultural Re-presentation of Childbirth Cynthia Huff 9. Figuration and
Disfigurement: Herculine Barbin and the Autobiography of the Body Roger J.
Porter 10. Autobiography, Bodies, Manhood Shirley Neuman 11. Poet and
Patriarch in Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men Joseph Fichtelberg 12. The
Autobiographical Manifesto: Identities, Temporalities, Politics Sidonie
Smith