The Challenge of Feminist Biography

Writing the Lives of Modern American Women

Elisabeth Israels Perry editor Joyce Antler editor Sara Alpern editor Ingrid Winther Scobie editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Published:1st Sep '92

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This pathbreaking anthology is an illuminating look at the lives of ten influential twentieth-century American women

This path-breaking anthology illuminates the lives of ten influential twentieth-century American women and looks at the challenges experienced by the women who have written about them. Exploring the frequently complicated dialogue between writer and subject, the contributors discuss tools appropriate to writing women's biography while their riveting accounts reveal how feminist scholarship led them to approach the study of women's lives in unconventional ways.

"This wonderful collection demonstrates the significance of women's biography as a central part of feminist scholarship. The feminist biographer inserts a second life into a biography, her own, giving us yet another layer of depth and insight."--Ann J. Lane, author of To "Herland" and Beyond: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Winner of the Susan Koppelman Award, 1993.

"This wonderful collection demonstrates the significance of women's biography as a central part of feminist scholarship. The feminist biographer inserts a second life into a biography, her own, giving us yet another layer of depth and insight."--Ann J. Lane, author of To "Herland" and Beyond: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  • Winner of <DIV>Winner of the Susan Koppelman Award, 1993.</DIV> 1993

ISBN: 9780252062926

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm

Weight: 367g

224 pages