Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Writing and Power: Introduction and Overview
Chapter 2. Writing Women's Political History
Chapter 3. Feminine Discourses: The Bumpy Road Toward Progress
Chapter 4. Portraits of and Interviews with Political Women
Chapter 5. The Pioneers
Chapter 6. In Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Raylene L. Ramsay teaches in the Department of French, University of Auckland

Reviews

"…pathbreaking study of women’s political writings of political as a distinctive literary genre…This dense, meaty study is a disciplinary hybrid, all the richer for the author's attempt to grapple with context and to consult the pertinent works in feminist history and political science that allow her to situate the texts she analyses…This is a book from which historians of modern Europe in recent times can learn a great deal."  ·  Karen Offen in Journal of Modern History “Ramsay’s study is ideal for students and scholars of post-modernism, literary theory or psychoanalysis. Her knowledge and use of the theories associated with these fields is admirable.”   ·  French Politics, Culture, and Society