Many early studies of women's autob...

Many early studies of women's autobiography (by Mason, Jelinek, Smith, Stanton) emphasized that women's subjectivity, at least in a traditional Western connection has been perceived by the one and the other men and women as relative to a male make liable position. The female (non)subject is seen as defining herself in relation to others, rather than as autonomous, and a number of analysts of women's autobiographies have be sounded backed Simone de Beauvoir's insights into the positioning of Woman as Other, as secondary to the male common Yet many studies also draw attention to a involved pattern of ambiguity within