By investigating women lifewriters' complex quest to distinguish themselves both within and from institutions and communities, this volume uses Kant's concept of unsociable sociability to formulate a divided sense of self at the heart of women's lifewriting, offering a provocative response to the notion of the relational female subject.
A. Collett
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'The volume advances the established feminist project to make visible women whose writing may not be well known, and it accomplishes this purpose admirably within the field of lifewriting.' - Review of English Studies