A Poetics of Women's Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-Representation

by Sidonie Smith

A Poetics of Women's Autobiography sees the woman who writes autobiographies as a persistent and resilient interrogator of the prevailing ideology of gender and the androcentric fictions it sustains, including the very idea of "autobiography."

Genres: Academic

224 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1987

About the author

Sidonie Smith is the Martha Guernsey Colby Collegiate Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan.

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[Katrina Sark · Rating 2 out of 5]

p.3 - "We may safely assert that the knowledge men acquire of women, even as they have been and are, without reference to what they might be, is wretchedly imperfect and superficial and will always be so until women themselves have told all they have to tell." (John Stuart Mill, The Subjugation of Women)