Women's Life-writing

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Women's Life-writing is written by Linda S. Coleman and published by Popular Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0879727489 (ISBN 10) and 9780879727482 (ISBN 13).

The essays in this collection offer readers vivid and varied evidence of the female response to recurring attempts by culture to artificially limit identity along the gendered lines of private and public experience. Calling on voices both familiar and little-known, British and American, black and white, young and old, poor and rich, heterosexual and lesbian, the essayists explore how women within unique personal and historical conditions used life-writing as a means of both self-understanding and connection to a community of sympathetic others, real or imagined. The life-writings within this anthology span the modern history of the genre itself, with writers drawn from as early as the seventeenth century and as late as the 1990s.