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All Sides of the Subject - e&,r--- The ATHENE Series An International Collection of Feminist Books General Editors Consulting Editor Gloria Bowles Dale Spender Renate Klein Janice Raymond The Athene Series assumes that all those who are concerned with formulating explanations of the way the world works need to know and appreciate the significance of basic feminist principles. The growth of feminist research has challenged almost all aspects of social organization in our culture. The Athene Series focuses on the construction of knowledge and the exclusion of women from the process- both as theorists and subjects of study-and offers innovative studies that challenge established theories and research. On Athene-When Metis, goddess of wisdom who presided over all knowledge was pregnant with Athene, she was swallowed up by Zeus who then gave birth to Athene from his head. The original Athene is thus the parthenogenetic daughter of a strong mother and as the feminist myth goes, at the "third birth" of Athene she stops being Zeus' obedient mouthpiece and returns to her real source: the science and wisdom of womankind. _.._- ...,.Jl• .~• • , ~~.-. ..Al \I,.., .•. ,··,v .. . , i .....• ...... i •, *. \r-:.... .· r,; , . ,• . .., -~ • .!J.l '"1: • .., . .- , • ' • • ., .., ., • ...., < i., . ~ ,l- ,,-V \ , • . ,, ,. T ' All Sides of the Subject & /'i <.,0r <1/J;>;, edited by /}1} 1 1 %1f: Teresa Iles ~,£ f;f', .. T&1CHERS QOLLEGE ~ PRESS Teachers College, Columbia University New York and London OCCIDENTA L COLLEGE IJBRABY 1600 CAMPUS ROAD LOS ANGELES, CA 90041 Published by Teachers College Press, 1234 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027 Copyright© 1992 by Teachers College, Columbia University All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the publisher. Library of Congress Cata.loging-in-Publication Data All sides of the subject: women and biography/ edited by Teresa lies. - 1st ed. p. cm. - (The Athene series) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 0-8077-6255-5 (paperback : alk. paper). - ISBN 0-8077-6256-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Women's studies-Biographical methods. 2. Biography (as a literary form) I. lies, Teresa. II. Series. HQ1185.A45 1991 809' .93592' 082--dc20 90-7895 ISBN 0-8077-6255-5 (pa1Per) ISBN U-8077-6256-3 (cloth) Printed on acid-free paper Manufactured in the United States of America 99 98 97 96 95 94 93 92 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ·'.f· l' ~ .... • • ... t • • · · ·•\ J.} ' Contents Foreword VII Dale Spender Acknowledgments XI Chapter 1. Introduction 1 Teresa lies Part 1: ISSUES 2. Sources and Silences 13 Abi Pirani 3. Toward a Theory of Women's Biography: From the Life of Susan B. Anthony 23 Kathleen Barry 4. Are You Writing Fact or Fiction? 36 Pilar Hidalgo 5. What Is a Feminist Biography? 48 Rachel Gutierrez Part 2: CHOICES 6. Making the Choices: Writing About Marguerite Carr-Harris 59 Meryn Stuart 7. The Pressure of the Choices 68 Miriam Kalman Harris V Conlents VI 8. Telling Choices in the Life of Isabella Bird 80 Judith Jordan Part 3: PURPOSES 9. Reflections on Subjectivism in Biographical Interviewing: A Process of Change 93 Anne-Kathrine Broch-Due 10. Using Life Histories in Sociology 102 Ann Nilsen Part 4: WRITERS 11. Process in Feminist Biography ;:ind Feminist Epistemology 109 Liz Stanley 12. Woman to Woman 126 Margaret Forster 13. Finding the Sources: Selling Women's Biography 134 Elizabetll Crawford Part 5: READERS 14. Reviewing Women's Biography 143 Liz Dearden 15. Learning from Women's Biography 152 Takayo Mukai Conclusion 162 Teresa lies Index 165 About the Editor and Contributors 171 Series List 175
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