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Women's Autobiographies, Culture, Feminism

by Kristi Siegel (Author)
©2000 Monographs XI, 195 Pages
Series: American University Studies , Volume 6

Summary

Using an approach that links feminist, psychoanalytic, and cultural theory, Dr. Siegel examines how the figure of the mother becomes a site of textual turbulence in women's autobiography as well as an underexamined metaphor in modern culture and feminism. Women's Autobiographies, Culture, Feminism analyzes writings from a wide array of authors including Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Annie Dillard, Maya Angelou, Zora Neale Hurston, Erna Bombeck, Betty MacDonald, Maxine Hong Kingston, Alta, Nancy Mairs, Anne Rolphe, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, and Hélène Cixous.

Details

Pages
XI, 195
Publication Year
2000
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820436784
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820455983
Language
English
Keywords
Mother Textual turbulence Metaphor
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Wien, 1999. XI, 195 pp.

Biographical notes

Kristi Siegel (Author)

The Author: Kristi Siegel is Associate Professor in the English department at Mount Mary College in Wisconsin and also works as a writer. She received her M.A. in Literature and Ph.D. in Modern Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has published and presented various articles on postmodern, feminist, and autobiographical theory, women's autobiography, medicine, technology, and British Imperialism.

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