TY  - BOOK
AU  - Siegel,Kristi
TI  - Women's autobiographies, culture, feminism
T2  - American university studies XXVII : Feminist studies
SN  - 082043678X
AV  - HQ1185 .S54 1999
U1  - 305.4092 
PY  - 1999///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Peter Lang
KW  - Women's studies
KW  - Biographical methods
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Women authors
KW  - Mothers in literature
KW  - Motherhood in literature
N1  - 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
ER  -