Women's Life-Writing Finding Voice, Building Community |
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| Editor:
| Coleman, Linda S. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-87972-748-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1997 |
| Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press
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| Imprint: | Popular Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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These essays offer readers vivid and varied evidence of the female response to recurring attempts by culture to artificially limit identity along the gendered lines of private and public experience. Calling on voices both familiar and little known, British and American, black and white, young and old, the essayists explore how women used life-writing as a means of both self-understanding and connection to a community of sympathetic others, real or imagined.
These essays offer readers vivid and varied evidence of the female response to recurring attempts by culture to artificially limit identity along the gendered lines of private and public experience. Calling on voices both familiar and little known, British and American, black and white, young and old, the essayists explore how women used life-writing as a means of both self-understanding and connection to a community of sympathetic others, real or imagined.