Telling women's lives the new biography /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wagner-Martin, Linda.
Corporate Author:	NetLibrary, Inc.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1994.
Subjects:	Biography as a literary form. Women > Biography > Methodology.
Online Access:	CONNECT CONNECT

Table of Contents:

Biography: the old and the new
Telling women's lives
The trap of the stereotype
Relinquishing stereotypes
The biographer's problem: women as wives
A woman's self: wives and writers
The power of naming
Listening to women's stories
Writing about mothers
Taking control of story: women's voices
Families of women
The best of them
Popular biography
Revisionist biographies of women.