Personal Writing in Professional Spaces: Contesting Exceptionalism in Interwar Women's Vocational Autobiographies
This essay draws on genre theory and recent conceptualizations of the personal as rhetorical in order to investigate the collective stakes of writerly self-representation. Contextualizing and analyzing a widely published early twentieth-century genre, the vocational autobiography, I argue that femal...
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