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1 online resource (viii, 277 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 -- 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. |
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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. |
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"What the wind won't take away" : the genesis of Nisa : the life and words of a!Kung woman / Marjorie Shostak -- 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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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women's studies -- Biographical methods.
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Women's studies -- Biographical methods. |
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Autobiography -- Women authors.
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Autobiography -- Women authors. |
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Feminist criticism.
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Feminist criticism. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Barbre, Joy Webster.
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Personal Narratives Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Interpreting women's lives. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1989 025333070X (DLC) 88045445 (OCoLC)18256598 |
| ISBN |
0585000751 (electronic book) |
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9780585000756 (electronic book) |
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025333070X |
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9780253330703 |
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0253205018 (paperback) |
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9780253205018 (paperback) |
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