Women's Autobiography in Gender Studies

• Authors: Zebala A.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

One of the main problems of women's autobiography is its being sidetracked and neglected in the androcentric canon. One way of solving the problem is to work out a theory of gender-specific autobiography, based on the premise that the experiences of men and women are in some crucial way different from each other. It is underpinned by a mimetic understanding of autobiography as a record of different existences of men and women. Its critics see this type of argument as an inadvertent copying of the old patriarchal stereotypes. In fact, conceptualizations of the connection between autobiography and women's autobiography range from essentialist notions of identity, ie. in which the autobiography expresses a pre-existent identity, to constructionism involving all kinds of cultural conditioning. The latter includes the reflexive identity project described in biographical terms (vide Giddens), which has been very popular in the criticism of women's autobiographies.

Keywords

EN

GENDER-SPECIFIC WOMEN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Ruch Literacki
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 6(273)
• Pages: 539-550
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zebala A.

• A. Zebala, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydzial Filologiczny, ul. Golebia 24, 31-001 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA01373062