Telling It Slant: Gender Roles,Power, and Narrative Style in the First Ladies' Autobiographies |
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Authors: | Borrelli MaryAnne |
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Institution: | (1) Connecticut College, College Box 5418, 270 Mohegan Avenue, New London, Connecticut, 06320 |
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Abstract: | This article examines the first ladies' autobiographies as works that reveal their author-subjects' perspectives and interpretations. Attention is focused on the White House years and, more specifically, on the author-subjects' depiction of their performance of the gender-based roles attributed to the first ladyship. Consistent patterns are identified in the autobiographers' narrative styles, with a slant (persuasive) narrative style predominating and a direct (argumentative) narrative style typically reserved to countering critics. The implications of this interpretation, for the individual first ladies and for the institution of the first ladyship, are profound. |
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Keywords: | first lady presidency women and politics autobiography |
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