Description
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledments
Part One: Origins
Origins: Personal Narratives Group
Part Two: Context
"Conditions Not of Her Own Making"
Personal Narratives Group
Liberating the Subject? Autobiography and "Women's History": A Reading of The Diaries of Hannah Cullwich
Julia Swindells
The Context of Personal Narrative: Reflections on "Not Either an Experimental Doll"—The Separate Worlds of Three South African Women
Shula Marks
Dissonance and Harmony: The Symbolic Function of Abortion in Activists' Life Stories
Faye Ginsburg
What's a Life Story Got to Do with It?
Karen Brodkin Sacks
Part Three: Narrative Forms
Forms That Transform
Personal Narratives Group
Gender and Narrative Form in French and German Working-Class Autobiographies
Mary Jo Maynes
Poetry and Truth: Elisa von der Recke's Sentimental Autobiography
Katherine R. Goodman
Considering More than a Single Reader
Elizabeth Hampsten
Nineteenth-Century Black Women's Spiritual Autobiographies: Religious Faith and Self-Empowerment
Nellie Y. McKay
Personal Narratives, Dynasties, and Women's Campaigns: Two Examples from Africa
Marcia Wright
Transformative Subjectivity in the Writings of Christa Wolf
Sandra Frieden
Women's Personal Narratives: Myths, Experiences, and Emotions
Luisa Passerini
Part Four: Narrator and Interpreter
Whose Voice?
Personal Narratives Group
"I'd Have Been a Man": Politics and the Labor Process in Producting Personal Narratives
Marjorie Mbilinyi
"What the Wind Won't Take Away": The Genesis of Nisa—The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
Marjorie Shostak
The Double Frame of Life History in the Work of Barbara Myerhoff
Riv-Ellen Prell
Part Five: Truths
Truths
Personal Narratives Group
Contributors
Index
