Life lines theorizing womens autobiography

          Used here in relation to women's autobiographies, Life/Lines is more than a metaphor; it defines a critical space.!

          Life/Lines: Theorizing Women's Autobiography

          by Bella Brodzki (Editor), Celeste Schenck (Editor)

          Series: Reading Women Writing

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          Autobiography raises a vital issue in feminist critical theory today: the imperative need to situate the female subject.

          Structures of liberation: female experience and autobiographical form in Quebec / Mary Jean Green -- Revisions of labor in Margaret Oliphant's autobiography / Gail Twersky Reimer -- "A nutmeg nestled.

        1. Life/Lines, a collection of essays on women's autobiography - many of them published here for the first time - attempts to meet this need.
        2. Used here in relation to women's autobiographies, Life/Lines is more than a metaphor; it defines a critical space.
        3. Autobiography raises a vital issue in feminist critical theory today: the imperative need to situate the female subject.
        4. Life lines: theorizing women's autobiography.

          5. Life/Lines, a collection of essays on women's autobiography, attempts to meet this need.

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          Bella Brodzki is Professor of Comparative Literature at Sarah Lawrence College

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          Life/Lines: Theorizing Women's Autobiography

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          Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Literature Studies and Criticism, Biography & Memoir, History
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          305.4 — Social sciencesSocial sciences, sociology & anthropologyGroups of peopleWomen
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          HQ1185 .L54 — Social sciencesThe family.

          Marriage, Women and SexualityThe Family. Marriage. WomenWomen. Feminism

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