What is it about?
The book, as I explain in detail, has a theoretical introduction, then six case studies, delving on historically prominent figures of women activists in the US who practiced diverse forms of life writing alongside their sociopolitical public lives.
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Why is it important?
Reading this review you will learn what Ostman's book can offer for the field of women's studies as well as for auto/biography studies.
Perspectives
I was asked by the editors of the journal Biography to be the person to write this review. I feel honored they consider my work on women activist life writing as exemplary of what these texts can do. My monograph, New Forms of Self-Narration (Palgrave, 2020), addressed six such case studies; though ranging broadly, and not hailing just from the US, I do believe rhetorical strategies permeate their narratives, an important feature of activists turned life writers and vice versa. I conclude reading Ostman's work proposing cross-cultural/-national comparative study of women activist practices.
Dr Ana Belén Martínez García
Universidad de Navarra
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This page is a summary of: American Women Activists and Autobiography: Rhetorical Lives by Heather Ostman, Biography, January 2022, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/bio.2022.0046.
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