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Includes bibliographical references and index
Acknowledgments -- - pt. 1 - Origins -- - Origins - Personal Narratives Group -- - pt. 2 - Context -- - "Conditions not of her own making" - Personal Narratives Group -- - Liberating the subject? : autobiography and "women's history" : a reading of The diaries of Hannah Cullwick - Julia Swindells -- - The context of personal narrative : reflections on "not either an experimental doll " : the separate worlds of three South African women - Shula Marks -- - Dissonance and harmony : the symbolic function of abortion in activists' life stories - Faye Ginsburg -- - What's a life story got to do with it? - Karen Brodkin Sacks -- - pt. 3 - Narrative forms -- - Forms that transform - Personal Narratives Group -- - Gender and narrative form in French and German working-class autobiographies - Mary Jo Maynes
Poetry and truth : Elisa von der Recke's sentimental autobiography - Katherine R. Goodman -- - Considering more than a single reader - Elizabeth Hampsten -- - Nineteenth-century black women's spiritual autobiographies : religious faith and self-empowerment - Nellie Y. McKay -- - Personal narratives, dynasties, and women's campaigns : two examples from Africa - Marcia Wright -- - Transformative subjectivity in the writings of Christa Wolf - Sandra Frieden -- - Women's personal narratives : myths, experiences, and emotions - Luisa Passerini -- - pt. 4 - Narrator and interpreter -- - Whose voice? - Personal Narratives Group -- - "I'd have been a man" : politics and the labor process in producing personal narratives - Marjorie Mbilinyi
"What the wind won't take away" : the genesis of Nisa : the life and words of a!Kung woman - Marjorie Shostak -- - The double frame of life history in the work of Barbara Myerhoff - Riv-Ellen Prell -- - pt. 5 - Truths -- - Truths - Personal Narratives Group -- - Contributors -- - Index
