Forming a critical introduction to the history of women's autobiography from the mid 18th-century to the present, this book analyses the most important changes

One of today’s most original thinkers on gender offers a provocative take on the current feminist movement, exploring “desire as the force shaping our ident

Long (sociology, Syracuse U.) seeks other methods for women's autobiography than the traditional Great Man and masculine discourse. She says it must reflect fem

Autobiography raises a vital issue in feminist critical theory today: the imperative need to situate the female subject. Life/Lines, a collection of essays on w

Examining novelists, bloggers, and other creators of new media, this study focuses on autobiography by American black women since 1980, including Audre Lorde, J