Abstract:The question of how gender identities are constructed is crucial for feminist historical analysis of male and female subjects. Autobiographiesthe way in which men and women have textualized their life-experiencetherefore offer essential opportunities to consider this question.In the last few years, an archive of autobiographies has been collected at the Social and Economic History Department at the University of Vienna.Most of the 650 unpublished written life histories could be defined as 'popular autobiograph… Show more
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