Writing feminist biography
Writing feminist biography
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Writing Feminist Lives
Overview
- Authors:
- Malin Lidström Brock
Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden
- Provides a scholarly analysis of seven biographies of famous 20th century feminists
- Adds to the discussion about life writing's role in feminism, by raising questions about representation, experience and imagined community
- Offers a new contribution to women's life writing through the selection of biographies
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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