"This group of studies first appeared in a special issue ... of Prose studies, vol. 14, no. 1"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Autobiography and questions of gender / Shirley Neuman -- Auto/bio/history : modern midwifery / Lynn Z. Bloom -- Refracting selves : Kate Millett's The basement / Jeanne Perreault -- From the inside out : Lily Briscoe a self-portrait: an autobiography by Mary Meigs / Susanna Egan -- A signature of lesbian autobiography : "Gertrice/Altrude" / Leigh Gilmore -- Women's autobiography : the self at stake? / T.L. Broughton -- Engendered autobiographies : the diary as a feminine form / Rebecca Hogan -- Delivery : the cultural re-presentation of childbirth / Cynthia Huff -- Figuration and disfigurement : Herculine Barbin and the autobiography of the body / Roger J. Porter -- Autobiography, bodies, manhood / Shirley Neuman -- Poet and patriarch in Maxine Hong Kingston's China men / Joseph Fichtelberg -- The autobiographical manifesto : identities, temporalities, politics / Sidonie Smith.
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