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Women's autobiographies, culture, feminism / Kristi Siegel.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: American university studies. Series XXVII, Feminist studies ; ; v. 58.Publisher: New York : Peter Lang, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: x, 195 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 082043678X
  • 9780820436784
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.4092
LOC classification:
  • HQ1185 .S54 1999
Contents:
Daughter's discourse -- Site of motherhood -- Situating women's autobiography -- Tracing women's autobiographical theory -- Autobiographical man/the autobiographical woman -- Body among minds -- Creating the mind/body split: Simone de Beauvoir and motherhood -- Mind of one's own: Memoirs of a dutiful daughter -- Her mother/her self: A very easy death -- Mother as spectacle: erotic surfaces -- Mothers, daughters, and desire -- Nathalie Sarraute's Childhood: the mother as lack -- Annie Dillard's An American childhood mothers, daughters, and bodies: culturally trapped, beautifully wrapped -- Mother speaks: a really bloody show -- Order of things and mothers -- Mom's best sellers: the housebroken, domesticated Gothics of Betty MacDonald, Shirley Jackson, and Erma Bombeck -- Strategies of transcendence: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Maxine Hong Kingston -- Making room for mommy: the Tranche de vie autobiographies of contemporary mothers -- Conclusion: mother, body and metaphor -- Site of motherhood revisited -- Dis-location of maternal space -- Economy of Écriture féminine -- Epilogue: re-membering, re-mothering the postmodern body -- Mothering as disease -- Re-organizing the body -- Mothering as metaphor.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-188) and index.

Daughter's discourse -- Site of motherhood -- Situating women's autobiography -- Tracing women's autobiographical theory -- Autobiographical man/the autobiographical woman -- Body among minds -- Creating the mind/body split: Simone de Beauvoir and motherhood -- Mind of one's own: Memoirs of a dutiful daughter -- Her mother/her self: A very easy death -- Mother as spectacle: erotic surfaces -- Mothers, daughters, and desire -- Nathalie Sarraute's Childhood: the mother as lack -- Annie Dillard's An American childhood mothers, daughters, and bodies: culturally trapped, beautifully wrapped -- Mother speaks: a really bloody show -- Order of things and mothers -- Mom's best sellers: the housebroken, domesticated Gothics of Betty MacDonald, Shirley Jackson, and Erma Bombeck -- Strategies of transcendence: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Maxine Hong Kingston -- Making room for mommy: the Tranche de vie autobiographies of contemporary mothers -- Conclusion: mother, body and metaphor -- Site of motherhood revisited -- Dis-location of maternal space -- Economy of Écriture féminine -- Epilogue: re-membering, re-mothering the postmodern body -- Mothering as disease -- Re-organizing the body -- Mothering as metaphor.

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