Title: Crucial conversations : interpreting contemporary American literary autobiographies by women /
Authors: Braham, Jeanne, 1940-
Publisher: Teachers College, Columbia University,
Year: 1995
Subjects: American prose literature Women authors History and criticism.; Women authors, American Biography History and criticism.; American prose literature History and criticism.; Women and literature United States History; Autobiography Women authors; Authorship Sex differences; Women authors, American Biography History and criticism.
Contents: Caregivers redefined : the mother bond. Moving Away From Good Mother/Bad Mother Stereotypes -- Jean Baker Miller, Toward a New Psychology of Women -- Dorothy Dinnerstein, The Mermaid and the Minotaur -- Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born -- Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering -- Portraits of Mothers and Nurturers -- Kim Chernin, In My Mother's House -- Vivian Gornick, Fierce Attachments -- Gloria Steinem, "Ruth's Song" -- Alice Walker, "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self"; In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens -- Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior -- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -- Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood -- Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman -- May Sarton, I Knew a Phoenix -- Memory and metaphor. Myth-Making: Reconstructing the Past. May Sarton, A World of Light -- Lillian Hellman, Pentimento; Scoundrel Time -- Patricia Hampl, A Romantic Education -- Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings --^