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- catalog abstract "Placing herself in the avid reader's chair, Linda Wagner-Martin writes about women's biography from George Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Eleanor Roosevelt and Margaret Mead, and even to Cher and Elizabeth Taylor. Along the way, she looks at dozens of other life stories, probing at the differences between biographies of men and women, prevailing stereotypes about women's lives and roles, questions about what is public and private, and the hazy margins between autobiography, biography, and other genres. In quick-paced and wide-ranging discussions, she looks at issues of authorial stance (who controls the narrative? who chooses which story to tell?), voice (is this story told in the traditional objective tone? and if it is, what effect does that telling have on our reading?), and the politics of publishing (why aren't more books about women's lives published? and when they are, what happens to their advertising budgets?).".
- catalog contributor b6296949.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "Biography: the old and the new -- Telling women's lives -- The trap of the stereotype -- Relinquishing stereotypes -- The biographer's problem: women as wives -- A woman's self: wives and writers -- The power of naming -- Listening to women's stories -- Writing about mothers -- Taking control of story: women's voices -- Families of women -- The best of them -- Popular biography -- Revisionist biographies of women.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-192) and index.".
- catalog description "Placing herself in the avid reader's chair, Linda Wagner-Martin writes about women's biography from George Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Eleanor Roosevelt and Margaret Mead, and even to Cher and Elizabeth Taylor. Along the way, she looks at dozens of other life stories, probing at the differences between biographies of men and women, prevailing stereotypes about women's lives and roles, questions about what is public and private, and the hazy margins between autobiography, biography, and other genres. In quick-paced and wide-ranging discussions, she looks at issues of authorial stance (who controls the narrative? who chooses which story to tell?), voice (is this story told in the traditional objective tone? and if it is, what effect does that telling have on our reading?), and the politics of publishing (why aren't more books about women's lives published? and when they are, what happens to their advertising budgets?).".
- catalog extent "xiii, 201 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0813520924 :".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,".
- catalog subject "808/.06692 20".
- catalog subject "Biography as a literary form.".
- catalog subject "CT22 .W34 1994".
- catalog subject "Women Biography Methodology.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Biography: the old and the new -- Telling women's lives -- The trap of the stereotype -- Relinquishing stereotypes -- The biographer's problem: women as wives -- A woman's self: wives and writers -- The power of naming -- Listening to women's stories -- Writing about mothers -- Taking control of story: women's voices -- Families of women -- The best of them -- Popular biography -- Revisionist biographies of women.".
- catalog title "Telling women's lives : the new biography / Linda Wagner-Martin.".
- catalog type "text".