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

Includes bibliographies and index.

Part 1. Origins: Origins (Personal Narratives Group) -- Part 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) -- Part 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 Hempsten); 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) -- Part 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) -- Part 5. Truths: Truths (Personal Narratives Group)