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Title:

American women's autobiography : fea(s)ts of memory / edited, with an introduction, by Margo Culley.

Publisher:

University of Wisconsin Press,

Copyright Date:

c1992

Description:

xiii, 329 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American prose literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Autobiography--Women authors.
Women--United States--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women authors, American--History and criticism.--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Culley, Margo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

What a piece of work is "woman"! / Margo Culley -- "Come and hear" / Kathleen M. Swaim -- Self and God in the early published memoirs of New England women / Ann Taves -- Resisting the gaze of embodiment / Sidonie Smith -- The political is the personal / Ann D. Gordon -- Utopia and anti-utopia in twentieth-century women's frontier autobiographies / Lynn Z. Bloom -- Gertrude Stein and the lesbian lie / Catherine R. Stimpson -- Orphanhood and "photo"-portraiture in Mary McCarthy's "Memories of a Catholic girlhood / Janis Greve -- Dorothy Day and women's spiritual autobiography / Mary G. Mason -- Choosing sides, choosing lives / Arlyn Diamond -- "No laughing matter" / Nancy Walker -- The tradition of Chinese American women's life stories / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim -- Indian women's personal narrative / Kathleen Mullen Sands -- Listening to the secret mother / C. Margot Hennessy.

Series:

Wisconsin studies in American autobiography

ISBN:

9780299132941 (pbk.) :
0299132943 (pbk.) :
9780299132903
0299132900

OCLC:

(OCoLC)25048744
(OCoLC)27686268

LCCN:

91046700

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)