Interpreting women's lives : [electronic resource] feminist theory and personal narratives / edited by The Personal Narratives Group, Joy Webster Barbre ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographies 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.