Women's Lives Into Print: The Theory, Practice and Writing of Feminist Auto/Biography

by P. Polkey (Editor)

Overview

Women's Lives into Print provides a remarkable collection of essays by feminist scholars and writers who focus on the theory, practice and writing of women's auto/biographies. Not only does it foster debate about the reading and interpretation of women's lives, it also explores issues relating to research methodology, and raises questions about the representation of women within feminist auto/biography. Working across a range of subject disciplines, this book comprises a vital and ground-breaking critical text for anyone interested in auto/biography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333684108
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/25/1999
Series:	Theory, Practice and Writing of Feminist Auto/Biography
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

CATHERINE BYRON Read Medieval Literature at Somerville College, Oxford ALISON DONNELL Teaches Post-Colonial Literature, Nottingham Trent University ELIZABETH EDWARDS Senior Research Associate, Homerton College, Cambridge MARY EVANS Teaches Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Kent LESLEY FORREST Teaches Women's Studies and Sociology, University College, Ripon JUDY GILES Senior Lecturer, University College, Ripon and York St.John KATHERINE FRANK Author of three biographies (Mary Kingsley, Emily Bronte and Lucie Duff Gordon) JULIA HALLAM Teaches Communication Studies, Liverpool University CHRISTINE KENNY Senior Lecturer, South Bank University JO STANLEY Co-ordinator of the National Maritime Museum's Women and the Sea Network LIZ STANLEY Author on feminist issues JULIA SWINDELLS Teaches at Homerton College, Cambridge BOGUSIA TEMPLE Senior Research Fellow, Manchester University VAL WALSH Freelance writer, researcher, editor and tutor JOSS WEST-BURNHAM Subject Leader, Cultural Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction SECTION 1: THEORY - PUTTING WOMEN'S LIVES INTO PRINT: FEMINIST ETHICS, METHODOLOGIES & EPISTEMOLOGIES How Do We Know Past Lives? Methodological and Epistemological Matters Involving Prince Philip, the Russian Revolution, Emily Wilding Davidson, my Mum and the Absent Sue; L.Stanley Terrible Times: Experience, Ethnicity and Auto/Biography; B.Temple Memory, Truth and Orality: The Lives of Northern Women Textile Workers; C.Kenney Feminist Ethics and Issues in the Production and Use of Life History Research; L.Forest & J.Giles SECTION 2: PRACTICE - RECOVERING AND READING WOMEN'S LIVES: INTERPRETATIVE ISSUES 'Recuperating' the Love-Passions of Edith Simcox; P.Polkey-Taylor Travelling Towards Selfhood - Victorian Religion and the Process of Female Identity ; J.West-Burnham Other People's Truths? Scientific Subjects in the Personal Recollections, From Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville ; J.Swindells Alice Havergal Skillicorn, Principal of Homerton College, Cambridge, 1935-60: Gender and Power ; E.Edwards When Writing the Other is Being True to the Self: Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother ; A.Donnell Self-image and Occupational Identity: Barbadian Nurses in Post-war Britain; J.Hallam The Lives of Indira Gandhi; K.Frank SECTION 3: WRITING _ REPRESENTING WOMEN'S LIVES: THE LIFE-HISTORY PROJECT A Good School Revisited; M.Evans The Most Difficult Door; C.Byron Digging Up Tangled Roots: Feminism and Resistance to White Working-class Culture; V.Walsh The Swashbuckler, the Landlubbing Wimp and the Women in Between: Myself as Pirate(ss); J.Stanley Index

Editorial Reviews

"Recommended for all academic collections." - Choice

"This collection of British scholars presenting materials about dimensions of the life-writing fields can hardly fail to interest readers. . .[A] surprisingly good read." - Biography

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