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Autobiography as Dissidence: Subjectivity, Sexuality, and the Women's Co-operative Guild
- Carolyn Marie Tilghman
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 26, Number 4, Fall 2003
- pp. 583-606
- 10.1353/bio.2004.0026
- Article
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This article examines British working-class women's autobiography as a form of political dissidence. Crucial to guildswomen's collective autobiographical practice was writing about the reproductive body within the socio/historical context of class and gender relations from the perspective of women. As revealed in Maternity: Letters from Working Women (1915) and in Life as We Have Known It (1931), guildswomen's life writing contested boundaries between political and domestic spheres, shifted emphasis from the individual to a collective identity, and demanded the inclusion of reproductive rights within the domain of human rights.
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ISSN | 1529-1456 |
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Print ISSN | 0162-4962 |
Pages | pp. 583-606 |
Launched on MUSE | 2004-01-08 |
Open Access | No |
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