Linda Wagner-Martin

Telling Women's Lives

The New Biography

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The author looks at dozens of life stories, probing at the differences between biographies of men and women, prevailing stereotypes about women's lives and roles, questions about what is public and private, and the hazy margins between autobiography, biography, and other genres.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 150mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9780813523750
• ISBN-10: 0813523753
• Artikelnr.: 21548972

Autorenporträt

LINDA WAGNER-MARTIN is Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina. She is the author of Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family.

Inhaltsangabe

Biography: the old and the new
Telling women's lives
The trap of the stereotype
Relinquishing stereotypes
The biographer's problem: women as wives
A woman's self: wives and writers
The power of naming
Listening to women's stories
Writing about mothers
Taking control of story: women's voices
Families of women
The best of them
Popular biography
Revisionist biographies of women