Telling Women's Lives: Subject/Narrator/Reader/Text

Telling Women's Lives: Subject/Narrator/Reader/Text

by Judy Long
ISBN-10:
0814750753
ISBN-13:
9780814750759
Pub. Date:
05/01/1999
Publisher:
New York University Press
ISBN-10:
0814750753
ISBN-13:
9780814750759
Pub. Date:
05/01/1999
Publisher:
New York University Press
Telling Women's Lives: Subject/Narrator/Reader/Text

Telling Women's Lives: Subject/Narrator/Reader/Text

by Judy Long
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Overview

For centuries, the "great man" format and masculine discourse of biography and autobiography have eclipsed women. If we accept this history, we remain ignorant of "Lady Sarashina," a Japanese woman of the Han period, whose book survives from the 11th century. We overlook Margaret Cavendish and Dame Julian, two early English autobiographers. And we fail to consider sufficiently slave narratives, oral histories, or lesbian "coming out" stories.
Telling Women's Lives assesses existing traditions of autobiography and biography in search of a method capable of conveying the distinctive content of women's lives while retaining the tenor of feminine subjectivity. Drawing on feminist research methodologies of the past two decades as well as anthropology and sociology, Long paves the way for the formulation of an emergent feminist methodology for telling women's lives.
This highly original study seeks to revise and recreate the genre so as to accommodate a feminine discourse, narrator, reader, and subject. The "messiness" of women's lives-the daily work and detail that men have programmatically excluded-acquires new meaning as Long develops here an innovative theory of sociobiography.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780814750759
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 05/01/1999
Series: Feminist Crosscurrents , #5
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Judy Long is Professor Emerita of Sociology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsix
1Telling Women's Lives1
2Gender and Genre15
3Scribbling Women27
4Translating Darkness45
5The Second Person in Social Science59
6Sociological Life History73
7Feminist Biography101
8A Feminist Approach to Telling Women's Lives117
Notes135
Bibliography159
Index179
About the Author185
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