the biographical battles over Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, and Simone de Beauvoir
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- WER 9 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- biografieën, feminisme, schrijvers, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- This book draws attention to the controversy that surrounds Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, and Simone de Beauvoir’s lives and the important role that their life stories have played in their feminist writing. The four women have contributed to battles over feminism’s meaning through autobiographically informed political writing.Therefore their biographers are also participants in these battles, yet not always on the same side as their subjects. The book introduces considerations of biography and feminism by showing that the biographers of the four women have made methodological choices that reflect their loyalty to, or their scepticism towards, competing ideological definitions of the exemplary feminist life.