Telling women's lives : the new biography /
Placing herself in the avid reader's chair, Linda Wagner-Martin writes about women's biography from George Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Eleanor Roosevelt and Margaret Mead, and even to Cher and Elizabeth Taylor. Along the way, she looks at dozens of other life stories, probing at the differ...
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| Мова: | Англійська |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©1994.
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Зміст:
- Biography: the old and the new
- Telling women's lives
- The trap of the stereotype
- Relinquishing stereotypes
- The biographer's problem: women as wives
- A woman's self: wives and writers
- The power of naming
- Listening to women's stories
- Writing about mothers
- Taking control of story: women's voices
- Families of women
- The best of them
- Popular biography
- Revisionist biographies of women.