Unveiling the female `I' : autobiographies by Australian women born in the 1920s

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This study fulfils the need for research into autobiographies of writers who have a number ot common traits which will provide specific conclusions about the art of autobiography. Unveiling the Female ' I' ; Autobiographies by Australian Women Born in the 1920s looks at works by fourteen writers who share the same nationality, gender and decade of birth. The Introduction documents the elusiveness of women's autobiographies and briefly surveys the critical situation to date, noting the lack of consensus in just what an autobiography is. Criteria have been established for extracting women's autobiographies from the large range of female autobiographical writings and the validity of the linguistic devices used to examine these works is justified. Working from the proposition by Chodorow that women are defined through process and by \other\". Chapter 1 looks at character and style in four autobiographies of childhood to establish how this forms the identity ot Australian women born in the

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