Leigh Gilmore, Elizabeth Marshall

Witnessing Girlhood

Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

Charting a history of how women use life narrative to transform conditions of suffering, silencing, and injustice into accounts that enjoin ethical response, the authors further readers' capacity to engage ethically with representations of vulnerability, childhood, and collective witness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780823285488
• ISBN-10: 0823285480
• Artikelnr.: 55292804

Autorenporträt

Leigh Gilmore (Author) Leigh Gilmore is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of several books, including most recently Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives. Elizabeth Marshall (Author) Elizabeth Marshall is Associate Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Graphic Girlhoods: Visualizing Education and Violence.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Witnessing Girlhood 1
1. Girls in Crisis: Feminist Resistance in Life Writing by Women of Color
13
2. Gender Pessimism and Survivor Storytelling in the Memoir Boom:
Girl, Interrupted, Autobiography of a Face, and Nanette 38
3. Visualizing Sexual Violence and Feminist Child Witness:
A Child's Life and Other Stories and Becoming Unbecoming 63
4. Teaching Dissent through Picture Books:
Girlhood Activism and Graphic Life Writing for the Child 86
Epilogue. Twenty-First-Century Formations: Child Witness, Trans Life
Writing, and Futurity 101
Acknowledgments 113
Notes 115
Index 141