The Challenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252062922 ISBN 13: 9780252062926

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1992

Synopsis

 This pathbreaking anthology is an illuminating look at the lives of ten influential twentieth-century American women and at the challenges experienced by the women who have written about them. Exploring the frequently complicated dialogue between writer and subject, the contributors uncover tools appropriate to writing women's biography and reveal, in often riveting accounts, how feminist scholarship led them to approach women's lives in unconventional ways.  
 
"This wonderful collection demonstrates the significance of women's biography as a central part of feminist scholarship. The feminist biographer inserts a second life into a biography, her own, giving us yet another layer of depth and insight." - Ann J. Lane, author of To "Herland" and Beyond: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
 

About this title

About the Author:

Sara Alpern is Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University.

Elisabeth Israels Perry, Belle Moskowitz's granddaughter, holds the John Francis Bannon Chair in U.S. History and American Studies at St. Louis University. Kathryn Kish Sklar is Distinguished Professor of History at the State University of New York at Binghamton. She is the author of Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900 and Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity.

Joyce Antler is the Samuel Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture at Brandeis University. She is the author or editor of nine books, including The Journey Home: How Jewish Women Shaped Modern America and Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in Popular Culture. She lives in Brookline,
Massachusetts, with her husband, and is the mother of two daughters.
About the Author:
Ingrid Winther Scobie is Associate Professor of History at Texas Woman's University.
Sara Alpern is Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University.

Review:

"A superb collection of essays eloquently presenting the feminist case for a new kind of biography, more personal and more sensitive to women's roles, and also more savvy about the connections between public and private experience in the lives of women and men than has been the norm in traditional biography." -- Magill Book Reviews "This wonderful collection demonstrates the significance of women's biography as a central part of feminist scholarship. The feminist biographer inserts a second life into a biography, her own, giving us yet another layer of depth and insight." - Ann J. Lane, author of To "Herland" and Beyond: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0252062922
• ISBN 13: 9780252062926
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Alpern Sara, Antler Joyce, Perry Elisabeth Israels, Scobie Ingrid Winther