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The (mis)uses of life histories. The linguistic turn, life histories and (women’s) life stories

This paper retraces the debates on life-histories before and after the linguistic turn in the social sciences, and, more specifically, in the anthropological tradition. It stresses how poststructuralist feminist methodological, theoretical, and political appropriations of personal narratives represent a significant textual intervention in the gendered social-cultural scripts of women’s lives.

feminist theories; life history; subjectivity; women’s life stories


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