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Author Rishoi, Christy, 1958-

Title From girl to woman : American women's coming-of-age narratives / by Christy Rishoi.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2003]
©2003
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 201 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
SUNY series in postmodern culture
SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.
SUNY series in postmodern culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-190) and index.
Contents 1. Identity and the coming-of-age narrative -- Recreating womanhood -- -- 2. Feminism, autobiography, and theories of subjectivity -- Feminism and the autobiographical act -- Western theories of subjectivity -- Feminist poststructuralist revisions to subjectivity -- -- 3. Coming of age in America -- Historical accounts of adolescence -- Psychological accounts of adolescence -- Literary accounts of coming age -- The coming-of-age-narrative -- American grand narratives of coming of age -- -- 4. Specifying American girlhood : Annie Dillard and Anne Moody -- Specifying the universal in An American childhood -- Hegemonic inscription of the body in Coming of age in Mississippi -- -- 5. "Lying contests" : fictional autobiography and autobiographical fiction -- "Lying contests" : signifying coming of age Janie's ways of knowing -- -- 6. "Room for paradoxes" : creating a hybrid identity -- A "World of paper strengths" : the education of Kate Simon -- Mythology and narrative in the creation of identity: the Woman warrior.
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Subject Women's studies -- United States -- Biographical methods.
Women's studies.
United States.
Women -- Identity.
Women -- Identity.
Social role.
Social role.
Maturation (Psychology)
Maturation (Psychology)
Self-realization.
Self-realization.
Autobiography -- Women authors.
Autobiography -- Women authors.
Women and literature -- United States.
Women and literature.
Feminist criticism.
Feminist criticism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: Rishoi, Christy, 1958- From girl to woman. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003 0791457214 0791457222 (DLC) 2002030478 (OCoLC)50448117
ISBN 1417524138 (electronic book)
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0791457222 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780791457221 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780791486887
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