Table of Contents: “…Autobiographics -- Technologies of autobiography -- Policing truth -- Genders, bodies, identities -- Violence and self-representation -- A signature of lesbian autobiography.…”

Table of Contents: “…Literary contingencies and necessities: Simone de Beauvoir's memoirs -- Family scenarios: transcriptions of gender and transgressions of gender: Nathalie Sarraute's 'Childhood' -- Rewriting her story from, passive to active: substitutions in Marguerite Duras's 'The lover' -- Confusing the genres: autobiographical parody and utopia in Monique Wittig's 'Acros the Acheron' -- Mediations of identity through the Atlantic triangle: Maryse Condé's 'Heremakhonon -- Conclusion: dialogue with the other.…”

Table of Contents: “…Reading autobiography : strategies and structures -- "Everybody's Zora : visions, setting, and voice in Dust tracks on a road -- Commodities that speak : form and transformation in Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative and Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the life of a slave girl -- In one voice : autobiographical acts in Maxine Hong Kingston's The women warrior and Hisaye Yamamoto's "The legend of Miss Sasagawara" -- People made of words : identity and identification in Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller and Adrienne Kennedy's People who led my plays -- Conclusion. …”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The mirrored self : Helena Parente Cunha's women between mirrors -- The self in exile : Luisa Futoransky's Babelic metatext -- Re-membering the nation by remembering the family : Ana Maria Shua's the book of memories -- The autobiographical text as memory box : Nélida Piñon's the repulbic of dreams -- "The life of Bobbi Lee is about why we must talk" : testimonial literature as a call to action -- "Part of surviving is through remembering" : the ethics and politics of life narratives about Indian residential school experiences.…”

Table of Contents: “…The Bodies of Contemporary Autobiographical Practice -- VIII. Autobiographical Manifestos.…”

Table of Contents: “…Authorizing the autobiographical /…”

Table of Contents: “…Carey Thomas -- The Yakima affair, from Life among the Piutes : their wrongs and claims (1883) / Sarah Winnemucca -- An old woman and her recollections (as recorded by Thomas Savage) (1877) / Eulalia Pérez -- Beginning to work, from A New England girlhood (1889) / Lucy Larcom -- "Looking back on girlhood" (1892) / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The Club movement among colored women of America (1900) / Fannie Barrier Williams -- Sketches from The Atlantic monthly / Zitkala-Ša -- Nurslings of the sky, from The land of little rain (1903) / Mary Hunter Austin -- Mary MacLane meets the vampire on the isle of treacherous delights (1910) / Mary MacLane -- The promised land, from The promised land (1912) / Mary Antin -- Lives in The Independent and the question of race / Anonymous -- How I made my first big flight abroad : my flight across the English Channel (1912) / Harriet Quimby -- Autobiographical essays / Sui Sin Far -- Selections from Madeleine, an autobiography (1919) / "Madeleine."…”

Subjects: “…Autobiographical fiction, Latin American -- History and criticism.…”

Subjects: “…Autobiographical fiction, French -- History and criticism.…”

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Table of Contents: “…"Pondering all these things in her heart" : aspects of secrecy in the autobiographical writings of seventeenth-century Englishwomen /…”

Table of Contents: “…Reconstructing mother-- the myth and the real : autobiographical texts by Elisabeth Langgässer and Cordelia Edvardson /…”

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Table of Contents: “…Adding color and contour to early American self-portraitures : autobiographical writings of Afro-American women /…”

Table of Contents: “…From Poems on various subjects, autobiographical narrative ;…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Life-writing and subversion -- Autobiography, authorship, and authority -- Black women autobiographers' encounter with gender, race, and class -- A patchwork of cultures : journeys of African American women autobiographers -- The emergence of an African American mother tongue -- Subtle resistance in Our Nig, Incidents, Behind the scenes, and Reminiscences -- Allusion as hidden discourse in Black women's autobiography -- Flagrant resistance, and punishment be damned -- Linkages : continuation of a tradition -- Afterword : Piecing it all together.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Meanings of Resistance -- The Dis/Continued Dialogue with the Enlightenment -- The Ongoing Edification of the Self -- The Transcending Consciousness of the Other -- Between Ecumenism and Anti-Judaism -- Stein and Weil: Diverging Responses to Jewish and Christian Traditions -- Stein and Weil: Between Self-Affirmation and Self-Reunification -- Frank and Hillesum: Identity and the Search for God -- Where Art and Self Meet -- Stein and Weil: Displaced Autobiographical Selves -- Frank and Hillesum: The Diarists as Growing Artists -- Gender Consciousness in the Rule of Terror -- Stein and Weil: Women's Nature and Destiny -- Toward Intellectual and Emotional Maturity.…”

Table of Contents: “…Western life narratives and theories in Chinese translation -- Women's short autobiographies during the war years -- Writing her own identity : Autobiography of Lu Yin -- Su Xuelin's autobiographical chapters -- Speaking the unspeakable : Bai Wei's Tragic life -- Xie Bingying's autobiography by installment.…”

Table of Contents: “…Pt. 2: Working women autobiographers. 5. Working women autobiographers. Introduction. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Feminism, autobiography, and theories of subjectivity -- Feminism and the autobiographical act -- Western theories of subjectivity -- Feminist poststructuralist revisions to subjectivity -- -- 3. …”

Table of Contents: “…1: Autobiography and the Catholic woman -- 2: Puzzling cheerfulness and puzzling complaints -- The conundrum of a too pleasant surface -- Unexpected frustration and grief -- 3: Theologies of women -- The message of subordination -- The message of equivalence -- 4: Spiritual combat -- Catholic girls in defense of their spiritual well-being -- Catholic women autobiographers keep up the good fight.…”

Table of Contents: “…Montano -- Shaping the world with our hands / Laila Farah -- "Orchids in the Arctic" : women's autobiographical performances as mentoring / Elizabeth Bell.…”

Table of Contents: “…Vision over truth : el Sueño de Venecia by Paloma Díaz-Más -- The art of seduction : Urraca by Lourdes Ortíz -- Voiceless power : fetishism in Solitario de amor by Cristina Peri Rossi -- Self-reproduction in El amor es un juego solitario by Esther Tusquets -- Sexual subversion : Las edades de Lulu by Almudena Grandes -- Etxebarria ecstasy : the publishing industry exposed -- Autobiographical sketches : female authors speak out.…”

Table of Contents: “…Charlotte Clarke : the transgressive daughter and the masquerade of self-representation -- Harriet Martineau's Autobiography : the repressed desire of life like a man's -- Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman warrior : filiality and woman's autobiographical storytelling.…”

Table of Contents: “…The radicalization of marginality in Jesus's Quarto de despejo : diário de uma favelada -- Jesus's Diário and the hybrid forms of textual agency -- Authorial intervention in A hora da estrela : metatextual and structured multiplicity -- Textual cross-gendering of the self and the other in Lispector's A hora da estrela -- Campos's Tiene los cabellos rojizos y se llama Sabina : the multivocality of identity -- Telling my story : Campos's rewriting of the feminine voice in Sabina -- The autobiographical pact and Hurston's restructuring of difference -- Wandering through the dust : textual statues in Dust tracks on a road.…”

Table of Contents: “…Fact and fiction: Lady Mary Wroath and Anne Weamys -- Publish and be damned . as a woman: Katherine Philips -- Biographical beginnings: Anne Cllifford, Lucy Hutchinson, Anne Fanshawe, Margaret Cavendish -- 'The fair triumvirate of wits': Aphra Behn, Delariviere Manley, Eliza Haywood -- Gross deception: 100 women novelists -- Power and progaganda -- The myth of the isolated achievement -- Male romance -- Women's view: women critics -- Sarah Fielding and misrepresentation -- Charlotte Lennox and North America -- Elizabeth Inchbald and independence -- Charlotte Smith and real life -- Ann Radcliffe and the Gothic -- Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays and autobiographical fiction -- Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth and the height of achievement -- Lady Morgan and political fiction -- Amelia Opie and the novel of ideas -- Mary Brunton: premature death and a rich bequest.…”

Table of Contents: “…Wanted, dead (to the world): autobiographical narratives by colonial nun authors Gerónima Nava y Saavedra and Ursula Suárez -- Gendered crime and punishment in New Spain: Inquisitional cases against the Ilusas Teresa de Jesús and Bárbara de Echegaray -- En/gender/ing the racialized other, re/writing indigenist narrative: Matto de Turner's Aves sin nido and Gómez de Avellaneda's Guatimozín and "El cacique de Turmequé" -- In search of a foremother: Silvina Bullrich and Madga Portal on Flora Tristán -- Mothers in the Mexican and Cuban revolutions: Nellia Campobelo, Magdalena Mondragón, and Dora Alonso -- "Quiero aportar un granito de arena": collaborative political text making by Dominga de la Cruz and Domitila Barrios Chungara -- Making historia (history/her story): Elvira Orphée's No women's zone and Marta Traba's women's zone.…”

Table of Contents: “…Reddy -- Mothers tomorrow and mothers yesterday, but never mothers today : Women on the edge of time and The handmaid's tale / Elaine Tuttle Hansen -- Mother right/write revisited : Beloved and Dessa Rose and the construction of motherhood in black women's fiction / Carole Boyce Davies -- Mothering an autistic child : reclaiming the voice of the mother / Jane Taylor McDonnell -- Constructing the mother : contemporary psychoanalytic theorists and women autobiographers / Shirley Nelson Garner -- Her mother's language / Cecilia Konchar Farr -- Facing the gorgon : good and bad mothers in the late novels of Margaret Drabble / Mary Jane Elkins -- The mother's part : incest and maternal deprivation in Woolf and Morrison / Paula Bennett -- The diaries of Jane Somers : Doris Lessing, feminism, and the mother / Gayle Greene -- This is not for you : the sexuality of mothering / Judith Roof -- Adoptive mothers and thrown-away children in the novels of Louise Endrich / Hertha D. …”

Table of Contents: “…": remarks on the biographical and autobiographical tradition of the women of one family / Gudrun Wedel -- The struggle for an identity: working-class autobiographies by women in nineteenth-century Germany / Juliane Jacobi-Dittrich.…”