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Volume 21, Issue 2 (Winter 2006)

Table of Contents

“Frida Kahlo’s Illustrated Autopathography: A Voice of Disability” by Margaret Crosby

“‘I felt more beautiful than possible . . . and the sommelier agreed’: Service and Selfhood in The Gastronomical Me” by Cathryn Halverson

“Speaking of Cancer: Outrage and the (Non)Breasted Woman” by Jennifer Driscoll

Soledad Sister: On the Absence of Angela Davis’s An Autobiography from Contemporary Historiographies of 1960s and 1970s Black Power

Movement” by Melissa Dearey

“‘I Said Lifting Belly’: Gertrude Stein’s Geometric Autobiography” by Ann K. Hoff

“Missing in Action: The Strange Case of Imperial Autobiography” by Philip Holden

Reviews

Character and Conversion in Autobiography: Augustine, Montaigne, Descartes, Rousseau, and Sartre by Patrick Riley (U of Virginia P, 2004). Reviewed by Eugene Stelzig.

History, Historians, and Autobiography by Jeremy Popkin (U of Chicago P, 2005). Reviewed by James Jaffe

Before They Could Vote: American Women’s Autobiographical Writing, 1819-1919. Ed. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson (U of Wisconsin P, 2006). Reviewed by Lynn Domina

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In Print: $15/$30

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