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Our Diaries, Ourselves How Diarists Chronicle Their Lives and Document Our World | 979.43 KB
Title: Our Diaries, Ourselves
Author: Betsy Rubiner
Category: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, History
Language: English | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0807014923
Description:
A spirited exploration of the diary, from pen-and-paper to TikTok, for the people who write-and read-them
Featuring iconic diary keepers like Audre Lorde, Virginia Woolf, Alison Bechdel, and Taylor Swift
We know what it was like to be an out lesbian in 19th-century England, what the inner world of a young girl in hiding looks like, and what the earliest internet users' favorite websites were, in part, because of diaries. Our Diaries, Ourselves is a joyful deep dive into this time-honored tradition of preserving who we are.
From Marie Curie to Taylor Swift, this book illustrates how keeping a diary helps us to understand ourselves and our world. Tour Italy's "City of the Diary," Pieve Santo Stefano, which boasts a diary archive, museum, and annual festival. Discover how women have used diaries for centuries as canvases for self-expression and self-care and as tools of resistance in a patriarchal society. Travel...
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