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Autobiographics : a feminist theory of women's self-representation / Leigh Gilmore.

By: Series: Reading women writingPublication details: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 1994.Description: xvi, 255 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0801427789
  • 9780801427787
  • 0801480612
  • 9780801480614
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Contents:
Autobiographics -- Technologies of autobiography -- Policing truth -- Genders, bodies, identities -- Violence and self-representation -- A signature of lesbian autobiography.
Summary: In the first comprehensive feminist critique of autobiography as a genre, Leigh Gilmore incorporates writings that have not up to now been considered part of the autobiographical tradition. Offering subtle and perceptive readings of a wide variety of texts-- from the confessions of medieval mystics to contemporary works by Chicana and lesbian writers-- she identifies an innovative practice of "autobiographics" which covers the entire spectrum of women's self-representation.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-250) and index.

Autobiographics -- Technologies of autobiography -- Policing truth -- Genders, bodies, identities -- Violence and self-representation -- A signature of lesbian autobiography.

In the first comprehensive feminist critique of autobiography as a genre, Leigh Gilmore incorporates writings that have not up to now been considered part of the autobiographical tradition. Offering subtle and perceptive readings of a wide variety of texts-- from the confessions of medieval mystics to contemporary works by Chicana and lesbian writers-- she identifies an innovative practice of "autobiographics" which covers the entire spectrum of women's self-representation.