All Sides of the Subject Women and Biography (Athene Series)

It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives. It is partly because of the way in which biography, the writing of a life, can synthesize, blend and transcend the realms of the public and the private, that women are fascinated with what the genre can provide. It is partly because women have a literary culture in the developed world, and partly because women have a vested interest in the nature of power and representation - in the construction of silence, in the dynamic distortion and denial - that women want to concentrate on the methodological questions of biography. All Sides of the Subject aims to encompass and open up the significant issues in this remarkable area of study. Contents Introduction Sources and Silences Toward a Theory of Women's Biography: From the Life of Susan B. Anthony Are You Writing Fact or Fiction? What Is a Feminist Biography? Making the Choices: Writing About Marguerite Carr-Harris The Pressure of the Choices Reflections on Subjectivism in Biographical Interviewing: A Process of Change Using Life Histories in Sociology Process in Feminist Biography and Feminist Epistemology Woman to Woman Finding the Sources: Selling Women's Biography Reviewing Women's Biography Learning from Women's Biography Conclusion Index About the Editor and Contributors "It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives." This book aims to encompass and open up the significant issues in the study of methodological questions of biography and feminism. Edited By Teresa Iles. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.