Contents:
Part One: Genre 1. Enforced narratives: stories of another self Carolyn Steedman 2. From "self-made women" to "women's made-selves"? Audit selves, simulation and surveillance in the rise of public women Liz Stanley 3. Textualisation of the self and gender identity in the life story Marie-Francoise Chanfrault-Duchet 4. Extendign autobiolgraphy: a discussion of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar Mary Evans
Part Two: Intersubjectivity 5. Composure and performance in oral history testimony Penny Summerfield 6. Spellbound: audience, identity and self in black women's narrative discourse Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis 7. Our mother's daughters: autobiographical inheritance through stories of gender and class Sara Scott and Sue Scott 8. Matrilineal narratives revisited Tess Cosslett 9. The global self: narratives of caribbean migrant women Mary Chamberlain
Part Three: Memory 10. Subjects in time: slavery and African-American women's autobiographies Alison Easton 11. Memory frames: the role of concepts and cognition in telling life stories Magda Michielsens 12. Autobiographical times Susannah Radstone 13. Circa 1959 Nancy Miller

This book features essays by leading feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines on the latest developments in autobiographical studies. The collection is structured around the inter-linked concepts of genre, inter-subjectivity and memory. Whilst exemplifying the very different levels of autobiographical activity going on in feminist studies, the contributions chart a movement from autobiography as genre to autobiography as cultural practice, and from the analysis of autobiographical texts to a preoccupation with autobiography as method.