Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Preface: autobiography, the social self and ghosts -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Genre -- Enforced narratives: stories of another self -- From 'self-made women' to 'women's made-selves'? Audit selves, simulation and surveillance in the rise of public woman -- Textualisation of the self and gender identity in the life-story -- Extending autobiography: a discussion of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar -- Intersubjectivity -- Dis/composing the subject: intersubjectivities in oral history -- Spellbound: audience, identity and self in black women's narrative discourse -- Our mother's daughters: autobiographical inheritance through stories of gender and class -- Matrilineal narratives revisited -- The global self: narratives of Caribbean migrant women -- Memory -- Subjects-in-time: slavery and African-American women's autobiographies -- Memory frames: the role of concepts and cognition in telling life-stories -- Autobiographical times -- Circa 1959 -- Autobiography matters -- Auto/biography and the actual course of things -- Doing Sym/Bio/Graphy with Yasna -- Bringing it home: autobiography and contradiction -- Index.