文档介绍：FROM GIRL TO WOMAN
SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory
Michelle A. Massé, editor
AND
SUNY Series in Postmodern Culture
Joseph Natoli, editor
From Girl to Woman
American Women’ing-of-Age Narratives
BY Christy Rishoi
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Rishoi, Christy, 1958–
From girl to woman : American women’ing-of-age narratives / by Christy
Rishoi.
p. cm. —(SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory) (SUNY series in
postmodern culture)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-7914-5721-4 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-5722-2 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Women’s studies—United States—Biographical methods. 2. Women—Identity.
3. Social role. 4. Maturation (Psychology) 5. Self-realization. 6. Autobiography—
Women authors. 7. Feminist criticism. I. Title. II. Series. III. Series: SUNY series in
postmodern culture
R57 2003
—dc21 2002030478
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For Helen Rishoi
In memory of Don Rishoi
and
for Larry—
who makes my heart sing
I never read an autobiography in which the parts devoted to
the earlier years were not far the most interesting.
—C. S. Lewis
I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a
child, simply a blow from an