Women's Autobiographies, Culture, Feminism
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1999
ISBN-13: 9780820436784
Subjects: General; Women's Studies - General; Sociology Of Women; Women In Literature; Social Science; Autobiography; Biographical methods; Mothers in literature; Women authors; Women's studies; Sociology
Description: "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, Erma Bombeck, Betty McDonald, Maxine Hong Kingston, Alta, Nancy Mairs, Anne Roiphe, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, and Helene Cixous."--BOOK JACKET.