Patricia Francis Cholakian. Women a...

Patricia Francis Cholakian. Women and the Politics of Self-Representation in Seventeenth-Century France. Newark: U of Delaware P 2000 219 pp ISBN 0-87413-735-7 $3750

This research of six early modern memoirs in French investigates the way five women depicted themselves in writing, the strategies they mobilized, and the stakes they perceived as crucial to their acts of self-accounting. In the case of the sixth, it examines the memoirs of a man who cross-dress from childhood forward and embraced the surface signifiers of "woman" as he makeed an extravagant ...