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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Contributors | ||
| 1 | What a Piece of Work is "Woman"! An Introduction | 3 |
| 2 | "Come and Hear": Women's Puritan Evidences | 32 |
| 3 | Self and God in the Early Published Memoirs of New England Women | 57 |
| 4 | Resisting the Gaze of Embodiment: Women's Autobiography in the Nineteenth Century | 75 |
| 5 | The Political Is the Personal: Two Autobiographies of Woman Suffragists | 111 |
| 6 | Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Twentieth-Century Women's Frontier Autobiographies | 128 |
| 7 | Gertrude Stein and the Lesbian Lie | 152 |
| 8 | Orphanhood and "Photo"-Portraiture in Mary McCarthy's Memories of a Catholic Girlhood | 167 |
| 9 | Dorothy Day and Women's Spiritual Autobiography | 185 |
| 10 | Choosing Sides, Choosing Lives: Women's Autobiographies of the Civil Rights Movement | 218 |
| 11 | No Laughing Matter: The WASPs Climb Down | 232 |
| 12 | The Tradition of Chinese American Women's Life Stories: Thematics of Race and Gender in Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior | 252 |
| 13 | Indian Women's Personal Narrative: Voices Past and Present | 268 |
| 14 | Listening to the Secret Mother: Reading John Edgar Wideman's Brothers and Keepers | 295 |
| Index | 323 | |
| Titles in Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography | 331 |
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Jason Wilson
reviewed American women's autobiography on June 27, 2009
American women's autobiography
Darwin's realization that much of the earth's surface is the product of earthworm excrement and Freud's antipathy to biography prompt Phillips' elegant, dense discussion on mortality and freedom. Discussions of such things as Freud's death instinct tend to lose me, and at times that was the case here. But Phillips' formulation of the two thinkers projects is probably as clearly stated as they can be and invigorating in their conclusions about nature and our place in it.
A quote: "For both Darwin and Freud the idea of death saves us from the idea that there is anything to be saved from. If we are not fallen creatures, but simply creatures, we cannot be redeemed. If we are not deluded by the wish for immortality, transience doesn't diminish us."
A good book to read alongside Julian Barnes' Nothing to be Frightened Of.
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