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- Title
Feminist Biography: A Contradiction in Terms?
- Authors
Zinsser, Judith P.
- Abstract
The article offers information on the contradiction in terms of feminist biography. It mentions that when reading a biography, the author has the power to make the reader feel that what is written is true. It cites three feminist biographers of 18th-century women who present different ways of dealing with the contradiction such as Isobel Grundy, Emilie de Breteuil, and Gelbart. It mentions the radical deconstruction of biography by feminist historians in the 1980's. Gerda Lerner, who wrote on black and white women in the U.S. and on feminism in Western culture, identified compensatory history or stories of exceptional women and contribution history or stories of reformers. It also discloses that women biographers have participated in the recovery history.
- Subjects
CONTRADICTION; FEMINIST biography; HISTORY of feminism; DECONSTRUCTION; GRUNDY, Isobel; DU Chatelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749; WOMEN biographers; LERNER, Gerda, 1920-2013; REFORMS
- Publication
Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation, 2010, Vol 50, Issue 4, p43
- ISSN
0193-5380
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ecy.0.0023