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This work probes the differences between the biographies of men and women, stereotypes about women's lives and roles, and what is private and public. It looks at issues of authorial stance, and the problems of writing biography for achieving women - who were also wives.

Table of Contents
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

Telling Womens Lives The New Biography

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      Publisher: Rutgers University Press
      Publication Date: 01/06/1996
      ISBN13: 9780813523750, 978-0813523750
      ISBN10: 0813523753
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      Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This work probes the differences between the biographies of men and women, stereotypes about women's lives and roles, and what is private and public. It looks at issues of authorial stance, and the problems of writing biography for achieving women - who were also wives.

      Table of Contents
      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

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