University of Minnesota Press, 1996 Paper: 978-0-8166-2490-4 Library of Congress Classification CT25.G48 1996 Dewey Decimal Classification 818.50809492
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Smith,
Sidonie
Watson,
Julia
I
Speaking Bodies
1
Bad Girls and Sick Boys: Inside the Body in Fiction, Film, and Performance Art
Kauffman,
Linda S.
2
“Voicing” Deaf Identity: Through the “I's” and Ears of an Other
Bauman,
H-Dirksen L.
3
Medical Identity: My DNA/Myself
Cook,
Kay K.
II
Entertaining Lives
4
Morphing Identities: Arnold Schwarzenegger—Write Us
Krasniewicz,
Louise
Blitz,
Michael
5
Performing Teen Motherhood on Video: Autoethnography as Counterdiscourse
Chasnoff,
Salome
6
The Mediated Talking Cure: Therapeutic Framing of Autobiography in TV Talk Shows
Peck,
Janice
7
Want Ads: Reading the Personals
Carroll,
Traci
III
Un/Speakable Lives
8
Consensual Autobiography: Narrating “Personal Sexual History” from Boswell's London Journal to AIDS Pamphlet Literature
Baruth,
Philip E.
9
Survivor Discourse: Transgression or Recuperation?
Alcoff,
Linda Martín
Gray-Rosendale,
Laura
10
Taking It to a Limit One More Time: Autobiography and Autism
Smith,
Sidonie
IV
Family Portraits
11
“What Kind of Life Have I Got?” Gender in the Life Story of an “Ordinary” Woman
Weisser,
Susan Ostrov
12
Race/Identity/Culture/Kin: Constructions of African American Identity in Transracial Adoption
Patton,
Sandra
13
Ordering the Family: Genealogy as Autobiographical Pedigree
Watson,
Julia
V
Institutionalized Lives
14
Twelve-Step Teleology: Narratives of Recovery/Recovery as Narrative
Warhol,
Robyn R.
Michie,
Helena
15
Professional Subjects: Prepackaging the Academic C.V.
Danahay,
Martin A.
16
(For)getting a Life: Testimony, Identity, and Power