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Record Nr.

UNINA9910741144503321

Autore

Lidström Brock Malin

Titolo

Writing Feminist Lives [[electronic resource] ] : The Biographical Battles over Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, and Simone de Beauvoir / / by Malin Lidström Brock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

3-319-47178-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Breaking Feminist Waves

Disciplina

305.420973

Soggetti

Literature, Modern—20th century

Sociology

Twentieth-Century Literature

Gender Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. A Question of Authority -- 2. Negotiating the Tradition--Feminist Realist Biography -- 3. Breaking New Ground--Feminist Exemplary Biography -- 4. Deconstructing the Life--Feminist Poststructuralist Biography -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book draws attention to the controversy that surrounds Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, and Simone de Beauvoir’s lives and the important role that their life stories have played in their feminist writing. Directly and indirectly, the four women have contributed to battles over feminism’s meaning through autobiographically informed political writing. Inevitably, therefore, their biographers are also participants in these battles, yet not always on the same side as their subjects. Writing Feminist Lives introduces a further fold of nuance into considerations of biography and feminism by showing that the biographers of the four women have made methodological choices that reflect their loyalty to, or their scepticism towards, competing ideological definitions of the exemplary feminist life. .