Understanding, Explaining and Interpreting the Process of Shaping a Woman’s Subjectivity on the Example of Bell Hooks Autobiography. A Study of Women’s Autobiographies in the Context of Thomas and Znaniecki’s Research

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  • Aneta Ostaszewska University of Warsaw, Poland

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https://doi.org/10.13136/isr.v10i2s.348

Keywords:

autobiography, subjectivity, women

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to reflect on bell hooks’ autobiographies in the context of women’s process of self-empowerment. Following the principle of the humanistic coefficient (Znaniecki) and recognizing autobiography as a significant source in social research (Thomas, Znaniecki), my focus is to understand, explain and interpret the process of shaping a woman’s subjectivity by analysing bell hooks’ autobiographical essays. I am interested in her autobiography as a life story of a black woman, whose experiences have been shaped by racial segregation and desegregation in the 1960s and 1970s in the USA and for whom writing autobiography has been a manifestation of speaking with her own voice.

Author Biography

Aneta Ostaszewska, University of Warsaw, Poland

Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialization

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Published

01.07.2020

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Ostaszewska, A. (2020). Understanding, Explaining and Interpreting the Process of Shaping a Woman’s Subjectivity on the Example of Bell Hooks Autobiography. A Study of Women’s Autobiographies in the Context of Thomas and Znaniecki’s Research. Italian Sociological Review, 10(2s), 341. https://doi.org/10.13136/isr.v10i2s.348

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Vol. 10 No. 2s (2020)

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