All sides of the subject : women and biography
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All sides of the subject : women and biography
（The Athene series）
Teachers College Press, c1992
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- : cloth : acid-free paper
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: paper : acid-free paper ISBN 9780807762554
Description
"It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives. It is partly because of the way in which biography, "the writing of a life," can synthesize, blend and transcend the realms of the public and the private, that women are fascinated with what the genre can provide. It is partly because women have a literary culture in the developed world, and partly because women have a vested interest in the nature of power and representation - in the construction of silence, in the dynamic distortion and denial - that women want to concentrate on the methodological questions of biography. "All Sides of the Subject" aims to encompass and open up the significant issues in this remarkable area of study.
Table of Contents
- Foreword, Dale Spender
- introduction, Teresa Iles. Part 1 Issues: sources and silences, Abi Pirani
- is this what the public wants to know?, Kathleen Barry
- are you writing fact or fiction?, Pilar Hidalgo
- what is a feminist biography?, Rachel Gutirrez. Part 2 Choices: making the choices, Meryn Stuart
- the pressure of the choices, Miriam Kalman Harris
- telling choices in the life of Isabella Bird, Judith Jordan. Part 2 Purposes: reflections on subjectivism in biographical interviewing - a process of change, Anne-Katherine Broch-Due
- using life histories in sociology, Ann Nilsen. Part 4 Writers: process in feminist biography and feminist epistemology, Liz Stanley
- woman to woman, Margaret Forster
- finding the sources - selling women's biography, Elizabeth Crawford. Part 5 Readers: reviewing women's biography, Liz Dearden
- learning from women's biography, Takayo Mukai
- conclusion, Teresa Iles.
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: cloth : acid-free paper ISBN 9780807762561
Description
"It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives. It is partly because of the way in which biography, "the writing of a life," can synthesize, blend and transcend the realms of the public and the private, that women are fascinated with what the genre can provide. It is partly because women have a literary culture in the developed world, and partly because women have a vested interest in the nature of power and representation - in the construction of silence, in the dynamic distortion and denial - that women want to concentrate on the methodological questions of biography. "All Sides of the Subject" aims to encompass and open up the significant issues in this remarkable areas of study.
Table of Contents
- Foreword, Dale Spender
- introduction, Teresa Iles. Part 1 Issues: sources and silences, Abi Pirani
- is this what the public wants to know?, Kathleen Barry
- are you writing fact or fiction?, Pilar Hidalgo
- what is a feminist biography?, Rachel Gutirrez. Part 2 Choices: making the choices, Meryn Stuart
- the pressure of the choices, Miriam Kalman Harris
- telling choices in the life of Isabella Bird, Judith Jordan. Part 2 Purposes: reflections on subjectivism in biographical interviewing - a process of change, Anne-Katherine Broch-Due
- using life histories in sociology, Ann Nilsen. Part 4 Writers: process in feminist biography and feminist epistemology, Liz Stanley
- woman to woman, Margaret Forster
- finding the sources - selling women's biography, Elizabeth Crawford. Part 5 Readers: reviewing women' biography, Liz Dearden
- learning from women's biography, Takayo Mukai
- conclusion, Teresa Iles.
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