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Writing Feminist Lives

The Biographical Battles over Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, and Simone de Beauvoir

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Authors:
  1. Malin Lidström Brock

    1. Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden

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  • Provides a scholarly analysis of seven biographies of famous 20th century feminists
  • Adds to the discussion about life writing's role in feminism, by raising questions about representation, experience and imagined community
  • Offers a new contribution to women's life writing through the selection of biographies

Part of the book series: Breaking Feminist Waves (BFW)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-15

  3. A Question of Authority

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    Pages 17-49

  4. Negotiating the Tradition—Feminist Realist Biography

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    Pages 51-105

  5. Breaking New Ground—Feminist Exemplary Biography

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    Pages 107-150

  6. Deconstructing the Life—Feminist Poststructuralist Biography

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    Pages 151-202

  7. Conclusion

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    Pages 203-209

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 211-239
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About this book

This book draws attention to the controversy that surrounds Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, and Simone de Beauvoir’s lives and the important role that their life stories have played in their feminist writing. Directly and indirectly, the four women have contributed to battles over feminism’s meaning through autobiographically informed political writing. Inevitably, therefore, their biographers are also participants in these battles, yet not always on the same side as their subjects. Writing Feminist Lives introduces a further fold of nuance into considerations of biography and feminism by showing that the biographers of the four women have made methodological choices that reflect their loyalty to, or their scepticism towards, competing ideological definitions of the exemplary feminist life. 


Authors and Affiliations

  • Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden

    Malin Lidström Brock

About the author

Malin Lidström Brock is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. She received her D.Phil. in English Literature from Oxford University, UK. Her primary research areas are contemporary American literature and culture, with a particular focus on life writing and gender. 



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Writing Feminist Lives

  • Book Subtitle: The Biographical Battles over Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, and Simone de Beauvoir

  • Authors: Malin Lidström Brock

  • Series Title: Breaking Feminist Waves

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47178-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47177-8Published: 12 May 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83670-6Published: 28 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47178-5Published: 05 May 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2945-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2945-7009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 239

  • Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Gender Studies

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