Siegel, Kristi,  1951- <br/><br/>
Women's autobiographies, culture, feminism / 
Kristi Siegel. 
 - x, 195 pages ;  24 cm. 
 - American university studies XXVII : Feminist studies ;  v. 6 .
 - American university studies.  Series XXVII,  Feminist studies ;  v. 58. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-188) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>082043678X 9780820436784 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>98050407 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women's studies--Biographical methods<br/>Autobiography--Women authors<br/>Mothers in literature<br/>Motherhood in literature
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ1185  / .S54 1999 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.4092