Using an approach that links feminist, psychoanalytic, and cultural theory, Dr. Siegel examines how the figure of the mother becomes a site of textual turbulence in women's autobiography as well as an underexamined metaphor in modern culture and feminism. Women's Autobiographies, Culture, Feminism analyzes writings from a wide array of authors including Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Annie Dillard, Maya Angelou, Zora Neale Hurston, Erna Bombeck, Betty MacDonald, Maxine Hong Kingston, Alta, Nancy Mairs, Anne Rolphe ...
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Using an approach that links feminist, psychoanalytic, and cultural theory, Dr. Siegel examines how the figure of the mother becomes a site of textual turbulence in women's autobiography as well as an underexamined metaphor in modern culture and feminism. Women's Autobiographies, Culture, Feminism analyzes writings from a wide array of authors including Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Annie Dillard, Maya Angelou, Zora Neale Hurston, Erna Bombeck, Betty MacDonald, Maxine Hong Kingston, Alta, Nancy Mairs, Anne Rolphe, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, and H???l???ne Cixous.
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Publisher:
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Published:
1999
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17768170402
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Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Title page missing...Title page missing...Title page missing...Title page missing... Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 195 p. American University Studies, 6. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 98050407 Type of material Book Personal name Siegel, Kristi, 1951-Main title Women's autobiographies, culture, feminism / Kristi Siegel. Published/Created New York: Peter Lang, c1999. Description x, 195 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 082043678X (alk. paper) LC classification HQ1185. S54 1999 LC Subjects Women's studies--Biographical methods. Autobiography--Women authors. Mothers in literature. Motherhood in literature. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-188) and index. Series American university studies XXVII: Feminist studies; v. 6 American university studies. Series XXVII, Feminist studies; v. 58. Dewey class no. 305.4/092
