 | Thinking through the Mothers: Reimagining Women''s Biographies If questions of subjectivity and identification are at stake in all biographical writing, they are particularly trenchant for contemporary women biographers of women. Often, their efforts to exhume buried lives in hope of finding spiritual foremothers... Janet Beizer is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and the author of Ventriloquized Bodies: Narratives of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century France, also from Cornell, and Family Plots: Balzac's Narrative Generations. |
