Online Seminar Series

Modern Heroine Autobiographies

Sunday, October 1, 2023

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The genra of autobiography necessarily invokes difficulties of subjectivity. omission, and distortion. At the same time, what one chooses to write about oneself can also be highly illuminating. Nowhere will this tension, and treasure, better reveal itself than in the autobiography of the modern heroine. In addition to the fruitful knowledge any reader would gain from a male writer of historic note, the modern heroine is also a witness, and an inspiration, of the dramatic evolution of technology, equality, and gender politics of the 20th century. We invite you to join this online series, reading autobiographies about one month apart.

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October 1 Reading:

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

Signet; Reprint edition (June 2010)

ISBN 978-0451531568

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Readings in the Series:

The Story of my Life by Helen Keller – ISBN 978-0451531568

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank – ISBN 978-0553577129

Art and Writing of Georgia O’Keeffe – ISBN 978-0140046779

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir – ISBN 978-0060825195

The Fun of It by Amelia Earhart – ISBN 978-0915864553

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou – ISBN 978-0345514400

The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt – ISBN 978-0062355911

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Schedule:

12:00-2:00PM PDT

Tutors: 

Andy Gilman, co-tutors to be announced

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Location: 

Online. Register to receive the link.