Dissertations / Theses: 'Women's autobiography'

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徐少珊 and Siu Shan Remy Chui. "Reading 'Third World' women's autobiography." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31222547.

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Chui, Siu Shan Remy. "Reading 'Third World' women's autobiography /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22763491.

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Gingerich, Jennifer Alena. "Establishing an elsewhere in contemporary American women's autobiography." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2003. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=352.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Marshall University, 2003.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 131 p. including illustrations. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Carver, Mary Heather. "Autobiography in performance : cinematic representation of women's lives /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Etherington-Wright, Christine. "Gender, professions and discourse : early twentieth century women's autobiography." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.430654.

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Marching, Soe Tjen 1971. "Negotiating identity : Indonesian women's published autobiographies and unpublished diaries in the New Order." Monash University, Dept. of Asian Languages and Studies, 2003. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5825.

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Burgess, Maureen A. "'Reforming' the native : frontier activism and women's autobiography in the Progressive Era /." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488195154357913.

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Jolly, Margaretta. "Everyday letters and literary form : correspondence from the Second World War." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360528.

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Al-Kassasbeh, Rabab Taha M. "Subjectivity, identity and the body : the poetics and politics of contemporary Arab women's autobiography." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407271.

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Mitchell, Anne Michelle. "Civil Rights Subjectivities and African American Women’s Autobiographies: The Life-Writings of Daisy Bates, Melba Patillo Beals, and Anne Moody." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1282156678.

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Jenkins, Alexandra Mary. "Women's Experimental Autobiography from Counterculture Comics to Transmedia Storytelling: Staging Encounters Across Time, Space, and Medium." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1407770633.

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Kulbaga, Theresa A. "Trans/national subjects genre, gender, and geopolitics in contemporary American autobiography /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1150386546.

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Tekeli, Gokce. "WHERE WE BELONG: SPATIAL IMAGINING IN AMERICAN WOMEN’S LIFE NARRATIVES, 1859-1912." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/86.

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Where We Belong: Spatial Imagining in American Women’s Life Narratives, 1859-1912, studies three marginalized and disadvantaged American women’s self-life narratives during a transitional period in American history. In this dissertation, I am taking an interdisciplinary approach. Where We Belong borrows from social geography, new materialism, and autobiography studies in order to complicate critical discussions of women’s space and place in nineteenth-century women’s self-life narratives. Each chapter of Where We Belong presents a case study with the goal to provide a broader understanding of women’s strategies of belonging due to and despite their spatial exclusions. The overarching emphasis in each chapter remains on the female body’s spatial movement. Exploring Eliza Potter’s A Hairdresser’s Experience in High Life (1859), Elizabeth Keckley’s Behind the Scenes; Or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (1868), and Mary Antin’s The Promised Land (1912), I claim that material spaces and these women’s corporeal bodies are inseparable. The three cases I present in this project exemplify how marginal women develop strategies of belonging in spaces from which they have been excluded. These women demonstrate ways of belonging (where they are assumed not to) enacted by self-life narratives. Belonging is not a passive way of being: it is activism that disrupts strict categories and definitions, such as blackness, in American literary scholarship. It contains paradoxes of acquiescence and self-declaration.

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Inestrillas, Maria del Mar. "Exilio, Memoria y Autorrepresentación: La Escritura Autobiográfica de María Zambrano, María Teresa León y Rosa Chacel." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1039017903.

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Heim, Robin. "Autobiography as self-defense in the works of Agnes Newton-Keith and Michelle Kennedy." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/135.

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This thesis examines the captivity narrative, Three Came Home, written in 1947 by Agnes Newton-Keith, and the poverty narrative, Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America: My Story, written in 2005 by Michelle Kennedy. When examined together through the lens of Trauma Theory, these narratives provide evidence of how similar the survival skills and strategies are between the American female POW's and the American females experiencing downward mobility. This thesis will also show how language uncovers and decodes the presence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder not often associated with women in poverty.

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Wahlin, Leah Joy. "Minor Movements: (Re)locating the Travels of Early Modern English Women." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1196786416.

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Waddell, Katherine. "AMERICAN MNEMONIC: RACIAL IDENTITY IN WOMEN’S LIFE WRITING OF THE CIVIL WAR." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/71.

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American Mnemonic: Racial Identity in Women’s Life Writing of the Civil War takes up three American women's autobiographies: Emilie Davis’s pocket diaries (1863-65), Elizabeth Keckley’s Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four in the White House (1868), and Louisa May Alcott’s Hospital Sketches (1863). Chapter one is devoted to literary review and methodology. Chapter two, "the all-absorbing topic': Belonging and Isolation in Emilie Davis’s Diaries," explores the everyday record of Emilie Davis in the context of Philadelphia’s free black community during the war. Davis’s position as a working-class free woman offers a fresh perspective on the much-discussed “elite” black community in which she participated. Chapter three, “'The Past is Dear': Nostalgia and Geotemporal Distance in Elizabeth Keckley’s Behind the Scenes,” explores Keckley’s memories of the South as she narrates them from her position as an upwardly mobile free black woman in Washington, D.C. My analysis illuminates the effect of shifting subject positions (e.g., from slave to free) on the process of self-narration, a process that I argue ultimately recasts Keckley in a more abolitionist light. Finally, chapter four, “'A Forward Movement': Louisa May Alcott’s Hospital Sketches and the Racialized Temporality of Progress,” argues that Alcott uses the geotemporal conditions of the war hospital to gain social mobility. This forward movement for Alcott leads her to cast black characters in a regressive light, revealing the racial hierarchy of progress. All of these authors express their experiences of time in unique ways, but in each case, the temporal cultural shifts catalyzed by the Civil War impact how they process their racial identities, and the genre of autobiography offers an intimate view of that process.

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Abu, Sarhan Taghreed Mahmoud. "Voicing the Voiceless: Feminism and Contemporary Arab Muslim Women's Autobiographies." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1322605173.

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Smith, Sarah Jane. "Pretend Her Genealogies." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1218072822.

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Mason, Qrescent Mali. "An Ethical Disposition Toward the Erotic: The Early Autobiographical Writings of Simone de Beauvoir and Black Feminist Philosophy." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/291198.

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Philosophy
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While many Simone de Beauvoir scholars have discussed the importance of the category of the erotic in Beauvoir's philosophical works, none explored the importance of Beauvoir's early autobiographical works to our understanding of the development of Beauvoir's ethical philosophy nor have they suggested how Beauvoir's ethical engagement with the erotic might be pertinent to black feminist philosophy. As such, this dissertation is a two-fold project. First, it presents an account of the lived experience of Beauvoir as illustrated through her early autobiographical works. This account focuses primarily on Beauvoir's romantic relationships and traces the development of her conversions leading to her most important philosophical contribution, that of existential ethics, through her accounts of these romantic relationships. Using Beauvoir's Diary of a Philosophy Student, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Wartime Diary, The Prime of Life, and Letters to Sartre, I maintain that it is only through our close engagement with these early autobiographical writings about her philosophical understanding of her romantic relationships that we are able to understand how Beauvoir comes into the ethical views that will inform the rest of her writing career. Beauvoir's focus on embodiment, facticity, conversion, and lived experience illustrate the extent to which these matters are inextricable from her existential ethics. Beauvoir claims in her philosophical ethical writings that the erotic moment serves a privileged moment when we encounter the other. Both Beauvoir's autobiographical writings and her ethical writings provide us with what is termed a "disposition toward the erotic," which is an attitude that stems from reflection upon and lived experience with the other in love or an erotic encounter, where we choose to encounter non-beloved others in a manner similar to that which we encounter the beloved other. In this way, a disposition toward the erotic is the foundation of Beauvoir's ethical assertions, with regard to what obligations we have toward the freedoms of others and how and why it is our ethical duty to fight against oppressive circumstances. The second part of this project draws a bridge between Beauvoir's ethical writings concerning the topic of the erotic and black feminism. As such, I begin my discussion of black feminism by talking about Black women's lived experience as recounted through black feminism itself. After this, I focus on Audre Lorde's "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power," bell hooks' series of books on love and Patricia Hill-Collins' Black Sexual Politics, since these serve as sources of direct black feminist engagement with the question of the erotic. I maintain that, in very important ways, black women's lived experience with the erotic has also informed the aims of the project of black feminism. As such, I illustrate how black women's lived experience has been colored by oppressive views of black women's embodiment and sexuality. I argue, as opposed to oppressive understandings of black women and their relationships toward their bodies, that this disposition toward the erotic is a stance that black feminism fundamentally shares with Beauvoir's existential ethics.
Temple University--Theses

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Winter, Angela Roorda. "Faith in the process, the hermeneutics of intersubjectivity in three women's autobiographies of trauma and healing." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq21653.pdf.

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Roig, Sílvia. "AURORA BERTRANA: UNA TRAYECTORIA LITERARIA MARCADA POR LA PERSPECTIVA DE GÉNERO." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/hisp_etds/18.

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My dissertation explores the narrative of Aurora Bertrana (1892-1974), an unknown writer today, but a successful and recognized female author in Catalonia and Spain during the mid 20th century. The written work of Aurora Bertrana is almost never mentioned in manuals of literature. Relegated almost to absolute oblivion, her rich, intellectual writting has not received the attention it deserves. I have studied seventeen of Bertrana’s novels –practically her entire oeuvre– written in Catalan and Spanish, including the following excellent books that have escaped critical attention: Ariatea (1960), “El pomell de les violes” (mn.), L’inefable Philip (mn.), La aldea sin hombres (mn.), La madrecita de los cerdos (mn.), Entre dos silencis (1958), La ninfa d’argila (1959), Fracàs (1966) and La ciutat dels joves: reportatge fantasia (1971). I have analyzed her writing, published and unpublished, from a feminist approach, taking into account the intellectual history of Spain and Catalonia. Bertrana’s strong commitment to controversial, social issues reveals her association with the modern and noucentists Catalan trends of her time. Her novels also reveal a unique interest in Europe at war and in non-Western cultures and lifestyles that draws attention to the situation of women in different circumstances and cultural geographies. My research is therefore anchored on interpretive and theoretical parameters that intersect, with a consideration of gender, such as class-and-gender, war-and-gender and travel-and-gender. I have used the work of feminists such as Simone De Beauvoir, Shulamith Firestone, Jelke Boesten, Margaret and Patrice Higonnet, Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo, and Julia Kristeva to help assess Bertrana’s engagement with gender and socio-political issues. This approach is particularly well suited for a writer like Aurora Bertrana, a Catalan and Republican intellectual woman forced into exiled during the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.

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Fisher, Leona C. "Fortune Personified and the Fall (and Rise) of Women in Chaucer's Monk's Tale and the Autobiographical Writings of Christine de Pizan." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd848.pdf.

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Wang, Jing. "Strategies of Modern Chinese Women Writers' Autobiography." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392046947.

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Piroli, Marta. "Finding Voices: Italian American Female Autobiography." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1145368184.

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Imran, Rahat. "Islamic laws, gender discrimination and legal injustices: the Zina Hudood Ordinance of Pakistan and its implication for women /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2114.

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Ondrake, Laura Katherine. "Hirabayashi Taiko: Issues of Subjectivity in Japanese Women’s Autobiography in Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1250261685.

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Upton-Davis, Karen. "An autoethnographic study of the rise and fall of intimacy : an embedded journey of discovery." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0197.

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The loss of intimacy is a pervasive tale, felt especially poignantly when the particular story, with its plot lines of love and betrayal, soaked as they are in rage and grief, is my own. By inverting the research process, whereby I call upon friends, and strangers who become friends, to assist me in the meaning-making process, this autoethnographic account of the twenty year downward spiral of my now defunct marriage makes tangible the shared project of making sense of intimacy, love and loss. It connects the personal to the social, cultural, and (most especially) the politically gendered nature of heterosexual relationship experience. It speaks of the process that makes it possible for me to tell my story and of the ethical tensions involved in telling a story of

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Chen, Yuling, and 陳玉玲. "A study of subjectivity in the autobiography of modern Chinese women =." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B44569713.

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Collins, Lindsey. "Dissimulating women Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John and Autobiography of my mother /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0010833.

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Modzelewski, Ann Shirley. "Internal dialogues: Construction of the self in The Woman Warrior." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2468.

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This thesis considers past autobiographical theory and questions whether it addresses the autobiography of the female writer. Autobiographies of Harriet Jacobs, Margaret Sanger, and Maxine Hong Kingston are examined to reveal their polyvocality, use of the autobiographical "I", and rhetorical strategies maintained in order to create a close relationship with the reader. Particular attention is paid to Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogism and Sidonie Smith's autobiographical "I."

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Vilalta, Iglesias María de los Ángeles. "Búsqueda y construcción identitaria en la poesía de Susana March." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de les Illes Balears, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/543570.

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[spa]El objetivo principal del presente trabajo es ahondar en la obra poética de Susana March como autora inscrita en la poesía de posguerra. Para ello se trabaja en uno de los aspectos claves en la literatura femenina de la época y así también en nuestra autora: la búsqueda y construcción identitaria, presente a lo largo de toda su producción literaria. Susana March estructura su poética a través de un hilo conductor que camina sobre la historia de un sujeto femenino que nos relata todo su proceso vivencial entrelazado libro a libro, desde la niñez, pasando por los años de juventud, seguidos de la madurez, hasta alcanzar la vejez. Se crea así una historia solícitamente construida desde el principio hasta el final, en la que se da una estrecha relación entre autobiografía e identidad, es decir, entre la impronta autobiográfica de Susana March y todo el proceso de búsqueda identitaria que caracteriza enormemente su poesía.
[cat]L'objectiu principal del present treball és aprofundir en l'obra poètica de Susana March com a autora inscrita en la poesia de postguerra. En aquest sentit, es treballa un dels aspectes claus en la literatura femenina de l'època i així també en la nostra autora: la recerca i la construcció identitària, present al llarg de tota la seva producció literària. Susana March estructura la seva poètica a través d'un fil conductor que camina sobre la història d'un subjecte femení que ens relata tot el seu procés vivencial entrellaçant llibre a llibre, des de la infantesa, passant pels anys de joventut i la maduresa, fins a arribar a la vellesa. Crea així una història construïda des del principi fins al final, en la qual és implícita una estreta relació entre autobiografia i identitat, és a dir, entre l'empremta autobiogràfica de Susana March i tot el procés de recerca identitària que caracteritza enormement la seva poesia.
[eng]The main objective of the this thesis is to delve into the poetic work of Susana March as an author inscribed in spanish postwar poetry. With this purpose we'll work on one of the key aspects in the feminine literature of the time and also in our author: the search and identity construction throughout all her literary production. Susana March structures her poetics through a thread that walks on the history of a female subject which tells us all her experiential process book by book, from childhood, through the years of youth, followed by maturity, until the old age. A wellconstructed story from the beginning to the end is thus created, in which there is a close relationship between autobiography and identity, or in other words, between the autobiographical imprint of Susana March and the whole process of identity research that characterizes her poetry.

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Vanacker, Sabine Anne. "The presence of women : modernist autobiography by Dorothy Richardson, Gertrude Stein and H.D." Thesis, University of Hull, 1994. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:3480.

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Christodoulou, Jacqueline Ann. "An autobiography of health : a study of health and identity amongst perimenopausal women." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.442700.

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Perez, Melissa C. "Vibia Perpetua's diary a woman's writing in a Roman text of its own /." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002731.

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Marqués-Martin, Claudia. "Shaping the Francoist female body politic : female right-wing life-writing." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2016. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=231868.

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War-focused life-writing and the study of the female subject in a period where war had the potential to destabilise traditional women's roles and identities remains an under researched topic. This thesis focuses on how the self-representation of the lives of right wing women were discursively constructed and reflexively represented in relation to large scale political, social and economic contexts. It supports Passmore's view that by deconstructing the traditional binary position in which right-wing women found themselves, they 'are no longer seen simply as such as victims or victimisers, but as both simultaneously. This thesis draws upon the life-writing of four women who belonged to Franco's elite regime: Maria Rosa Urraca Pastor, Regina García, Pilar Millán Astray and Pilar Primo de Rivera and explores the (re)construction and reflexive representations of the self. It shows how they not only struggled to identify with one collective group, but adopted and shifted between different collective identities. It demonstrates how womanhood and motherhood were created, recreated, redefined and modified to become a politicised and patriotic idea of woman. It shows how these four women reconstructed a new (female) identity by adapting their femaleness and their expected role as women in order to achieve acceptance within the Francoist movement. This thesis shows the need to rethink the right-wing meaning of womanhood, motherhood, and female agency in contemporary scholarship.

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Mosher, Sarah Elizabeth. "Shooting The Canon: Feminine Autobiographical Voices of the French-Speaking World." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194135.

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In the field of literary production, women's autobiographical writing has been one of the most powerful means of artistic expression. Life-writing is a genre of ambiguity and paradox intertwined with some of the most fundamental questions of literary studies. Within the domain of lettres françaises, new canons of female-authored literary works from France and the various regions of the non-Western French-speaking world have emerged during both the colonial and postcolonial periods. This body of published autobiographical texts has worked to re-define the very nature of twentieth and twenty-first century literary canons. In addition to the traditional autobiographical novel, other literary genres such as travel journals, diaries, poetry, confessions, memoirs, and autobiographical fiction provide authors with a wide array of literary alternatives to the classical autobiography. Focused on the autobiographical texts and films of five French-speaking women of the twentieth century, this study examines both canonical and marginal female authors from France, Northern Africa, and the Caribbean. In addition to dealing with issues such as personal freedom, language, social class, the desire to write, family, alterity, and space, this project seeks to analyze how five French-speaking women autobiographers of different generations and social and national origins established a literature of their own through a métissage of autobiographical forms. Since autobiography is a mode that historically has been defined by mostly white, Christian, European men of the upper social echelon, I propose to show the different ways in which the women of this study have in fact been “shooting the autobiographical canon” by taking over, taking aim at, or altering the established domain of male-authored life-narratives as in the case of Simone de Beauvoir, Elisabeth Lacoin and Maryse Condé, or in filming a new canon of autobiographical expression in the case of Assia Djebar’s and Yamina Benguigui’s documentaries.

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Tsai, Li-Hui. "Women, autobiography and criticism : The life writing of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Robinson, 1770-2009." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.528961.

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Bowles, John Parish. "Bodies of work autobiography and identity in Adrian Piper's conceptual and performance art /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2002. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/53916455.html.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2002.
Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-256).

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Scalpato, Lauren Ann. "Overcoming Anonymity: The Use of Autobiography in the Works Of Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte." Thesis, Boston College, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/452.

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Thesis advisor: Susan Michalczyk
In nineteenth-century England, women were struggling to find an outlet for the intelligence, emotions, and creativity that the patriarchal society around them continuously stifled. For women such as Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, writing served as an opportunity to defy restrictive social structures and offered a needed public voice. By expressing their own thoughts and frustrations, Austen and Brontë helped to overcome the anonymity imposed upon women of their time, as they illuminated the female experience. The following paper takes a look at the ways in which Austen and Brontë imparted autobiographical elements to their female characters, as both authors underwent important catharses and inspired the women around them. To this day, their literature provides critical insight into the troubled existence of the nineteenth-century woman, while revealing their own struggles with their constricted identities
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2004
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English
Discipline: College Honors Program

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Romeo, Caterina. "Narrative tra due sponde memoir di italiane d'America /." Roma : Carocci : Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza", 2005. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/60340203.html.

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Griffiths, Jacquelynn Kleist. "Persuasion and resistance: how migrant women use life writing." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2215.

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Migrant women use life writing not only to share pieces of their own lives, but also to write powerful narratives which confront racism, patriarchal oppression, and US imperialism. The four texts I have selected represent skillful negotiation between drastically different languages, cultures, and social systems, evinced both through the experiences the authors represent within the text and through their careful rhetorical and narrative strategies, which are tailored for particular audiences. As these narratives demonstrate, migrant women can use life writing to contest and destabilize dominant narratives of history and race. In I’ve Come a Long Way (1942), Chinese author Helena Kuo demonstrates the worth, dignity, and superiority of Chinese culture in order to convince US readers to ally with China in their fight against Japan. Kuo’s work was intended not only to garner military support for China, but also to create a more positive view of the Chinese people. Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins Morales, a mother and daughter born in New York City and Puerto Rico, respectively, write together in Getting Home Alive (1986), layering stories from the mainland United States and the island of Puerto Rico while protesting US imperialism and US military presence on the island. By enacting resistance from a variety of subject positions, the authors are able to share pieces of their life stories while also creating an alternate history of Puerto Rico, one that reveals the violence and imperial domination of the US government. In When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (1989), former Vietcong collaborator Le Ly Hayslip tells the story of the Vietnam War from the perspective of a Vietnamese villager, explaining why some Vietnamese resisted US forces. Through her narrative, Hayslip transforms herself from a Vietcong enemy into a reliable narrator for US readers, detailing her own suffering, empathizing with her US readership, and encouraging peace and forgiveness between nations, while still questioning the ethics of US involvement in the war. By retelling stories from her childhood on the US-Mexico border in Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera (1995), Mexican author Norma Elia Cantú challenges the impermeability of borders, both between fact and fiction and between nations. By simultaneously retelling and fictionalizing her past, Cantú is able to preserve and reclaim her childhood while creating a subversive counternarrative of border life which contests dominant governmental and patriarchal narratives. All of these authors use life writing in an innovative way, tailoring their texts to the political and social context in which they were publishing and striving to build a relationship with readers at a particular time in US history. By challenging conventional, governmental, and media representations of events and contesting existing social structures, these authors provide a more comprehensive understanding of US history and society.

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Floyd, Janet. "Leaving the world : narratives of emigration and frontier life written by women in Upper Canada and the Old Northwest." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239577.

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Aydogdu, Zeynep. "Modernity, Multiculturalism, and Racialization in Transnational America: Autobiography and Fiction by Immigrant Muslim Women Before and After 9/11." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1557191593344128.

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Anicic, Maria, and Anna Kristiansson. "Bröstcancer vänder upp och ner på hela livet : En studie av självbiografier om kvinnors erfarenheter av att leva med bröstcancer." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsa och lärande, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-11700.

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Bakgrund: Varje år drabbas tusentals kvinnor av bröstcancer i Sverige. Sjukdomen förändrar livet på olika sätt för kvinnorna. Diagnosen ger upphov till olika känslor såsom oro, ångest och rädsla. Behandlingen medför olika biverkningar som kan ge känslan av att tappa sin identitet. Dessa erfarenheter kräver att sjuksköterskan har kunskap för att kunna ge rätt stöd, vård och bemötande för att lindra lidande och främja hälsa. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att belysa kvinnors erfarenheter av att leva med bröstcancer Metod: En kvalitativ innehållsanalys av modellen beskriven av Lundman och Hällgren Granheim (2014) baserad på fem självbiografier. Resultat: Ur analysen framkom fyra huvudkategorier; Rädsla för framtiden, Mista sin kvinnliga identitet, behov av samverkan samt förändrad livssyn med åtta underkategorier. Diskussion: Det är viktigt att sjuksköterskan har kunskap om de psykiska och fysiska förändringarna som sker i samband med bröstcancer hos kvinnorna. Genom att sjuksköterkan är medveten om kvinnornas erfarenheter och upplevelser ökar kunskapen för individanpassad vård. Slutsats: Kvinnorna som drabbas av bröstcancer lever med en ständig rädsla, ångest och oro. Stöd av personer i samma situation och sjuksköterskor har en viktig inverkan på kvinnornas hälsa och minskar deras lidande.
Background: Every year thousands of women are affected with breast cancer in Sweden. The disease changes the womens life in different ways. The diagnosis gives them different emotions like worry, anxiety and fear. The treatment involves different side effects that can give the feeling of losing your identity. These experiences require that the nurse have the right knowledge to give support, care and treatment to relive the suffering and promote health. Aim: The aim was to illustrate women's experiences of living with breast cancer. Method: Five autobiographies was chosen and analyzed with a qualitative content analysis described by Lundman and Hällgren Graneheim (2014). Results: Four categories emerged from the analysis; Fear of the future, Lose her female identity, The need for interaction and Altered outlook, with eight subcategories. Discussion: It is important that the nurse has knowledge of the psychological and physical changes that occur in women with breast cancer. If the nurse is aware of women's knowledge and experience the knowledge for individualized care increases. Conclusion: Women with breast cancer live with a constant fear, anxiety and worry. Support from people in the same situation and nurses have an important impact on women's health and helps to reduce their suffering.

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Smit, Lizelle. "Narrating (her)story : South African women’s life writing (1854-1948)." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97034.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University. 2015
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Seeking to explore modes of self-representation in women’s life writing and the ways in which these subjects manipulate the autobiographical ‘I’ to write about gender, the body, race and ethnic related issues, this thesis interrogates the autobiographies of three renegade women whose works were birthed out of the de/colonial South African context between 1854-1948. The chosen texts are: Marina King’s Sunrise to Evening Star: My Seventy Years in South Africa (1935), Melina Rorke’s Melina Rorke: Her Amazing Experiences in the Stormy Nineties of South-African History (1938), and two memoirs by Petronella van Heerden, Kerssnuitsels (1962) and Die 16de Koppie (1965). My analysis is underpinned by relevant life writing and feminist criticism, such as the notion of female autobiographical “embodiment” (239) and the ‘I’s reliance on “relationality” (248) as discussed in the work of Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson (Reading Autobiography). I further draw on Judith Butler’s concept of “performativity” (Bodies that Matter 234) in my analysis in order to suggest that there is a performative aspect to the female ‘I’ in these texts. The aim of this thesis is to illustrate how these self-representations of women can be read as counter-conventional, speaking out against stereotypical perceptions and conventions of their time and in literatures (fiction and criticism) which cast women as tractable, compliant pertaining to patriarchal oversight, as narrow-minded and apathetic regarding achieving notoriety and prominence beyond their ascribed position in their separate societies. I argue that these works are representative of alternative female subjectivities and are examples of South African women’s life writing which lie ‘dusty’ and forgotten in archives; voices that are worthy of further scholarly research which would draw the stories of women’s lives back into the literary consciousness.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In ‘n poging om metodes van self-uitbeelding te bespreek en die manier waarop die ‘ek’ van vroulike ego-tekste manipuleer om sodoende te skryf oor geslagsrolle, die liggaam, ras en ander etniese kwessies, ondersoek hierdie verhandeling die outbiografieë van drie onkonvensionele vrouens se werk, gebore vanuit die de/koloniale konteks in Suid-Afrika tussen 1854-1948. Die ego-tekste wat in hierdie navorsingstuk ondersoek word, sluit in: Marina King se Sunrise to Evening Star: My Seventy Years in South Africa (1935), Melina Rorke se Melina Rorke: Her Amazing Experiences in the Stormy Nineties of South-African History (1938), en twee memoirs geskryf deur Petronella van Heerden, Kerssnuitsels (1962) en Die 16de Koppie (1965). My analise word ondersteun deur relevante kritici van feministiese en outobiografiese velde. Ek bespreek onder andere die idee dat die vroulike ‘ek’ liggaamlik “vergestalt” (239) is in outobiografie, asook die ‘ek’ se afhanklikheid van “relasionaliteit” (248) soos uiteengesit in die werk van Sidonie Smith en Julia Watson (Reading Autobiography). Verder stel ek voor, met verwysing na Judith Butler, dat daar ‘n “performative” (Bodies that Matter 234) aspek na vore kom in die vroulike ‘ek’ van Suid- Afrikaanse outobiografie. Die doel van hierdie tesis is om uit te lig dat hierdie selfvoorstellings van vroue gelees kan word as kontra-konvensioneel; dat die stereotipiese uitbeelding van vroue as skroomhartig, nougeset, gedweë ten opsigte van patriargale oorsig, en willoos om meer te vermag as wat hul onderskeie gemeenskappe vir hul voorskryf, weerspreek word deur hierdie ego-tekste. Die doel is om sodanige outobiografiese vertellings en -uitbeeldings te vergelyk en sodoende uiteenlopende vroulike subjektiwiteite gedurende die periode 1854-1948 te belig. Ek verwys deurlopend na voorbeelde van ander gemarginaliseerde Suid-Afrikaanse vroulike ego-tekse om aan te dui dat daar weliswaar ‘n magdom ‘vergete’ en ‘stof-bedekte’ vrouetekste geskryf is in die afgebakende periode. Ek voor aan dat die ‘stem’ van die vroulike ‘ek’ allermins stagneer het, en dat verdere bestudering waarskynlik nodig is.

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Adcock, Rachel C. "Daughters of Zion and Mothers in Israel : the writings of separatist and particular Baptist women, 1632-1675." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2011. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/8452.

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During the 1630s, congregations began to separate from the established Anglican Church forming new autonomous groups. This study examines separatist and Baptist women s writings from this period, as they struggled under the persecution of the religious authorities and under the increasingly strict rules of their congregations. These women s writings could not have been imagined without the proliferation of these new congregations, but, as well as providing a platform for women to publish, these groups imposed their own rules on what women could express in public. Considering separatist and Baptist women as part of their congregations is integral to an understanding of their work, and it is on this that this study focuses. Although their writings relate and analyse their own relationship with God, this is always presented as a sign of the progress of God s people as a whole. Through an analysis organised along doctrinal and congregational lines, this study draws attention to women who have received little or no literary critical (or indeed historical) attention, by considering the genres they utilised as part of their membership. Women writers of conversion narratives, in particular, have not received as much critical attention as more remarkable women who prophesied or who were associated with male writers. The voices of little-studied women like An Collins, Sarah Davy, Deborah Huish, Sara Jones, Susanna Parr, Katherine Sutton, Jane Turner, Anne Venn, the anonymous speaker of Conversion Exemplified and the contributors to the collections of John Rogers and Henry Walker deserve to be heard alongside the reported words of Mary Allein, Anne Harriman, Dorothy Hazzard, and Elizabeth Milbourne, and better known writers such as Anna Trapnel and Agnes Beaumont. The study will also draw on works that are not currently widely available, which have therefore received very little critical attention. Often compared to Deborah, the biblical Mother in Israel (Judges 5:7), women in these gathered churches were instrumental in bringing forth joy to their metaphorical children of Israel, by prophesying ways in which enemies of their congregations would face retribution and by continually strengthening church practices in time for the second coming of Christ. This study explores the various ways in which these mid-seventeenth-century women worked to strengthen their congregations through their writings, believing that they had been divinely inspired to edify those whose practice was wanting, and vindicate rightful walking in his name. During the 1630s, congregations began to separate from the established Anglican Church forming new autonomous groups. This study examines separatist and Baptist women's writings from this period, as they struggled under the persecution of the religious authorities and under the increasingly strict rules of their congregations. These women's writings could not have been imagined without the proliferation of these new congregations, but, as well as providing a platform for women to publish, these groups imposed their own rules on what women could express in public. Considering separatist and Baptist women as part of their congregations is integral to an understanding of their work, and it is on this that this study focuses. Although their writings relate and analyse their own relationship with God, this is always presented as a sign of the progress of God's people as a whole. Through an analysis organised along doctrinal and congregational lines, this study draws attention to women who have received little or no literary critical (or indeed historical) attention, by considering the genres they utilised as part of their membership. Women writers of conversion narratives, in particular, have not received as much critical attention as more 'remarkable' women who prophesied or who were associated with male writers. The voices of little-studied women like An Collins, Sarah Davy, Deborah Huish, Sara Jones, Susanna Parr, Katherine Sutton, Jane Turner, Anne Venn, the anonymous speaker of Conversion Exemplified and the contributors to the collections of John Rogers and Henry Walker deserve to be heard alongside the reported words of Mary Allein, Anne Harriman, Dorothy Hazzard, and Elizabeth Milbourne, and better known writers such as Anna Trapnel and Agnes Beaumont. The study will also draw on works that are not currently widely available, which have therefore received very little critical attention. Often compared to Deborah, the biblical 'Mother in Israel' (Judges 5:7), women in these gathered churches were instrumental in 'bringing forth' joy to their metaphorical children of Israel, by prophesying ways in which enemies of their congregations would face retribution and by continually strengthening church practices in time for the second coming of Christ. This study explores the various ways in which these mid-seventeenth-century women worked to strengthen their congregations through their writings, believing that they had been divinely inspired to edify those whose practice was wanting, and vindicate rightful walking in his name.

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Attarian, Hourig. "Lifelines : matrilineal narratives, memory and identity." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115621.

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This inquiry explores matrilineal autobiographical narratives in the contexts of family stories and memories. This self-study traces the stories of a collective of five women of a common Armenian heritage, who represent various generational, homeland and diasporic portraits and experiences. Carrying the burden of being descendants of genocide survivors, the memories we reconstruct and interpret deal with issues of inherited exile, dispossession, loss, trauma, survival and healing. In exploring these narratives, I engage in self-reflexivity as we construct, re-construct, re-present our narratives and their impact on our constructions and negotiations of self and identity.
I use the family album metaphor as a foundation for my narrative framework and weave together the participants' and my autobiographical reconstructions through the intertwined stories of memory, trauma and displacement. The self-reflexive nature of our multilayered autobiographical narratives reconnects our selves with our pasts. Within a diasporic frame, I use the narratives as interpretive tools to explore the effects of multigenerational diasporic experiences on constructions of identity and agency.
The relationships we develop using face-to-face group conversations, virtual discussions through a Web forum and emails, personal reflexive journals, photo props and collaged images, highlight a dialogic process of imagined possibilities for the transformative power of storying. The autobiographical inquiry bridges voice to self and self to voice. This authoring process is an essential medium to writing ourselves as women. The process also allows us to reclaim our vulnerabilities as sources of inner strength and to embrace this understanding as the locus of writing.

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Gumbar, Dziyana P. "Autobiographical subjectivity in Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent dancing and Marjorie Agosín's The alphabet in my hands." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/4567.

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Thesis (M.A.)--George Mason University, 2009.
Vita: p. 154. Thesis director: Ricardo F. Vivancos Pérez. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Oct. 12, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-153). Also issued in print.

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Otero, Ellan B. "The Fiction of The Rime: Gaspara Stampa’s “Poetic Misprision” of Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta." Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1733.

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This study maintains that although Gaspara Stampa's Rime (1554) appears to straddle two popular literary genres-lyric poetry and autobiography-analysis of the Rime within its cultural context demonstrates that while Stampa (1523-1553) used Petrarchan conventions, she also both borrowed and swerved from Giovanni Boccaccio's Elegy of Lady Fiammetta (1334-1337) to imagine a non-Petrarchan narrative of an abandoned woman. In the Renaissance, lyric poetry and autobiography were distinguished not only by their style-prose vs. verse-but, more importantly, by the treatment of their distinctive subject matter. Lyric poetry focused on those emotions involving love, whereas Renaissance autobiography shunned emotions. A comparative analysis of the Rime with the Elegy concludes that the Rime is not a lyric version of Boccaccio's Elegy; however, a consideration of Harold Bloom's "anxiety of influence" demonstrates that although Stampa borrowed the Boccaccian idea of the woman as narrator to tell the story of love and abandonment, she creatively adapted-or, to use Bloom's term, swerved from-Boccaccio's presentation of the abandoned narrator's psychological pain. Instead, Stampa depicts the frustrations and the pain of the narrator whose love is unrequited although her beloved remains nearby.

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