03698nam 2200769Ia 450 991081149100332120240417042102.097814175241380-7914-8688-51-4175-2413-8(CKB)1000000000446843(OCoLC)61367712(CaPaEBR)ebrary10594909(SSID)ssj0000158774(PQKBManifestationID)11162943(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000158774(PQKBWorkID)10149846(PQKB)10761091(MiAaPQ)EBC3408568(OCoLC)55896436(MdBmJHUP)muse6005(Au-PeEL)EBL3408568(CaPaEBR)ebr10594909(DE-B1597)683184(DE-B1597)9780791486887(EXLCZ)99100000000044684320020813d2003 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFrom girl to woman[electronic resource] American women's coming-of-age narratives /by Christy Rishoi1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20031 online resource (215 p.) SUNY series in Postmodern CultureSUNY series in feminist criticism and theorySUNY series in postmodern cultureBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-5721-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-190) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Identity and the Coming-of-Age Narrative -- Feminism, Autobiography, and Theories of Subjectivity -- Coming of Age in America -- Specifying American Girlhood -- “Lying Contests” -- “Room for Paradoxes” -- Notes -- Works Cited -- IndexFrom Girl to Woman examines the coming-of-age narratives of a diverse group of American women writers, including Annie Dillard, Zora Neale Hurston, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Mary McCarthy, and explores the crucial role of such narratives in the development of American feminism. Women have long known that identity is complex and contradictory, but in the twentieth century their coming-of-age narratives finally voice this knowledge. Addressing a variety of themes—awakening sexuality, the body's metamorphosis in puberty, consciousness of difference from males, and the socialization into feminine gender roles—these narratives reject the heroine's narrative ending in romance, allowing American women writers to create alternative subjectivities by rejecting the notion that identity is ever fixed. While activists have succeeded in winning legal battles that have changed the legal status of women, these narratives perform the cultural work of exposing the painful contradictions faced by women as they come of age.Women's studiesUnited StatesBiographical methodsWomenIdentitySocial roleMaturation (Psychology)Self-realizationAutobiographyWomen authorsFeminist criticismWomen's studiesBiographical methods.WomenIdentity.Social role.Maturation (Psychology)Self-realization.AutobiographyWomen authors.Feminist criticism.305.42Rishoi Christy1958-1681971MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811491003321From girl to woman4051731UNINA