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Women's autobiographies, culture, feminism

Title
  1. Women's autobiographies, culture, feminism / Kristi Siegel.
Published by
  1. New York : Peter Lang, c2001.
Author
  1. Siegel, Kristi, 1951-

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Description
  1. x, 195 p.; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. American university studies XXVII : Feminist studies ; vol. 6
Uniform title
  1. American university studies. Series XXVII, Feminist studies ; vol. 58.
Subject
  1. Mothers in literature
  2. Motherhood in literature
  3. Autobiography > Women authors
  4. Women's studies > Biographical methods
Contents
  1. Daughter's discourse -- Site of motherhood -- Situating women's autobiography -- Tracing women's autobiographical theory -- Autobiographical man/the autobiographical woman -- Body among minds -- Creating the mind/body split: Simone de Beauvoir and motherhood -- Mind of one's own: Memoirs of a dutiful daughter -- Her mother/her self: A very easy death -- Mother as spectacle: erotic surfaces -- Mothers, daughters, and desire -- Nathalie Sarraute's Childhood: the mother as lack -- Annie Dillard's An American childhood mothers, daughters, and bodies: culturally trapped, beautifully wrapped -- Mother speaks: a really bloody show -- Order of things and mothers -- Mom's best sellers: the housebroken, domesticated Gothics of Betty MacDonald, Shirley Jackson, and Erma Bombeck -- Strategies of transcendence: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Maxine Hong Kingston -- Making room for mommy: the Tranche de vie autobiographies of contemporary mothers -- Conclusion: mother, body and metaphor -- Site of motherhood revisited -- Dis-location of maternal space -- Economy of Écriture féminine -- Epilogue: re-membering, re-mothering the postmodern body -- Mothering as disease -- Re-organizing the body -- Mothering as metaphor.
Call number
  1. JFE 01-11594
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-188) and index.
Author
  1. Siegel, Kristi, 1951-
Title
  1. Women's autobiographies, culture, feminism / Kristi Siegel.
Imprint
  1. New York : Peter Lang, c2001.
Series
  1. American university studies XXVII : Feminist studies ; vol. 6
  2. American university studies. Series XXVII, Feminist studies ; vol. 58.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-188) and index.
ISBN
  1. 0820455989
Research call number
  1. JFE 01-11594
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