The Challenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women (Women in American History) [Hardcover]

Sara Alpern (Editor), Joyce Antler (Editor), Elisabeth Israels Perry (Editor), Ingrid Winther Scobie (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 1992 | Series: Women in American History

Winner of the Susan Koppelman Award, 1993. 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 text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press (November 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0252019261
• ISBN-13: 978-0252019265
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,142,068 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)