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Writing Feminist Lives

Part of the Breaking Feminist Waves Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47178-5

ISBN: 978-3-319-47177-8

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Mar 18, 2017

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Introduction

Lidström Brock, Malin

Pages: 1 –15

[In the introductory chapter Lidström Brock presents seven biographies of Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem and Simone de Beauvoir as examples of distinct narrative approaches made by biographers, who wished to write a feminist life in the 1990s. The chapter defines the period as a...
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A Question of Authority

Lidström Brock, Malin

Pages: 17 –49

[The chapter provides a much-needed history of the central role that women’s autobiography has played in the development of modern feminism. Lidström Brock demonstrates how modern feminist critics in the 1970s developed a suspicion of the autobiographical genre and eventually turned to biography...
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Negotiating the Tradition—Feminist Realist Biography

Lidström Brock, Malin

Pages: 51 –105

[In this chapter, Lidström Brock asks whether realist biography can also be feminist. Exploring the critical portrayals of Betty Friedan and Germaine Greer in realist biography, her proposed answer is that these biographies fulfill feminist needs by presenting their respective subjects as...
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Breaking New Ground—Feminist Exemplary Biography

Lidström Brock, Malin

Pages: 107 –150

[The chapter highlights the central function storytelling plays in the modern feminist project by studying two biographies of Gloria Steinem, whose authors have departed from the realist form in favor of a “sympathetic” approach to their subject’s life. In this chapter, Lidström Brock...
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Deconstructing the Life—Feminist Poststructuralist Biography

Lidström Brock, Malin

Pages: 151 –202

[In this chapter, Lidström Brock critically examines the feminist potential of two poststructuralist biographical approaches to Simone de Beauvoir. The chapter clarifies how skepticism of the rational and coherent biographical subject and the biographer as the sole authority of the life causes...
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Conclusion

Lidström Brock, Malin

Pages: 203 –209

[The concluding chapter asks how feminist biographers will write the feminist life next. The chapter begins with a summary of the feminist and biographical battles that Lidström Brock has identified in seven biographies of Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem and Simone de Beauvoir....

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