Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and index.
Contents
pt. 1. Reading for an Alternate Tradition. 1. Pioneer Women's Diaries and Journals: Letters Home/Letters to the Future. 2. Pioneer Women's Memoirs: Preserving the Past/Rescuing the Self. 3. Two Exemplary Tools: Moodie's Roughing It and Jameson's Studies and Rambles -- pt. 2. On Becoming a Twentieth-Century Woman. 4. Achieving Women/Achieving Womanhood. 5. Literary Women: Finding "The Words to Say It" -- pt. 3. Finding a Counter-Discourse. 6. Gestures towards an Embodied Tradition.
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