Thinking Through the Mothers : Reimagining Women's Biographies.

By:

Beizer, Janet

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780801458361

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Thinking Through the MothersDDC classification:

920.72 B

LOC classification:

CT3203 -- .B37 2009eb

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Contents:

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Translations -- Prologue -- Cat's Cradle -- Unwrapping the Mummy -- Writing Origins -- A Different Story -- One's Own -- Mothers and Lovers, or the Great Banalities of Existence -- Epilogue -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

Summary: If questions of subjectivity and identification are at stake in all biographical writing, they are particularly trenchant for contemporary women biographers of women. Often, their efforts to exhume buried lives in hope of finding spiritual foremothers.

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If questions of subjectivity and identification are at stake in all biographical writing, they are particularly trenchant for contemporary women biographers of women. Often, their efforts to exhume buried lives in hope of finding spiritual foremothers.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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