Representing Lives: Women and Auto/Biography - Tapa dura

Representing Lives: Women and Auto/biography is an eclectic and comprehensive collection of essays, exploring contemporary issues and debates concerning women's auto-biographical representations from a range of disciplinary perspectives. With authoritative contributions from a number of prominent figures in the field of women's auto/biography, as well as innovative new voices, this volume offers a broad and contemporary lens on the issues and debates relevant to the act of representing women's lives. Drawing on a variety of theoretical frameworks and discussing theatre, literature, popular culture and women in history, these essays help to map out some of the new intellectual spaces inhabited by feminist scholarship in the 1990s.

T. G. ASHPLANT teaches Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores University ELAINE ASTON Senior Lecturer, Theatre Studies, Loughborough University ERZSÉBET BARAT Lecturer, Linguistics and Gender Studies, Attila Jozsef University, Szeged, Hungary NICOLA BRICE Birbeck College, University of London TONYA BLOWERS Lecturer, English Studies, Oxford Brookes University R. J. ELLIS Reader in English and American Literature, Nottingham Trent University ALISON FELL Department of French Studies, University of Birmingham DEBORAH GAITSKELL Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies VANESSA GILL-BROWN Lecturer in Design Studies, Nottingham Trent University VESNA GOLDSWORTHY Lecturer in English Literature, Birbeck College, University of London ALEX GOODY Ph.D. University of Leeds HELENA GRICE teaches at University of Wales, Aberystwyth NIKE IMORU Lecturer in Drama, University of Hull LORNA JOWETT Lecturer in American Studies, Nene University College, Northampton HELEN NICHOLSON Department of Drama, University of Manchester ALISON ODDEY Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, University of Kent JUNE PURVIS Professor of Women's and Gender History, University of Portsmouth ANIRA ROWANCHILD Literature Department, The Open University CHRISTIANE SCHÖNFELD Lecturer, University of Wales, Lampeter NICOLA SHAUGHNESSY Senior Lecturer in Drama and English, University College, Worcester ANNA SNAITH Lecturer in English, Anglia Polytechnic University LIZ STANLEY Professor of Sociology, Director of Women's Studies, University of Manchester JULIA SWINDELLS Director of English Studies, Homerton College, Cambridge LYNNETTE TURNER Lecturer in English, Oxford Brookes University.