I. Women's Lifewriting and the (Male) Autobiographical Tradition. 1. The Female Self Engendered: Autobiographical Writing and Theories of Selfhood / Shari Benstock. 2. Woman's Autobiographical Writings: New Forms / Carolyn G. Heilbrun. 3. Construing Truth in Lying Mouths: Truthtelling in Women's Autobiography / Sidonie Smith. 4. Feminine Authorship and Spiritual Authority in Victorian Women Writers' Autobiographies / Mary Jean Corbett. 5. Gender-Related Difference in the Slave Narratives of Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass / Winifred Morgan -- II. Theorizing the Female Subject: Who Writes, How, and Why? 6. Reading for the Doubled Discourse of American Women's Autobiography / Helen M. Buss.