Autobiographics

I apreciate Leigh Gilmore's look into the autobiography itself and her insight into how sex plys a role in an auto-biographic style. Gimore points out plainly the fact that autobiography is a choice of definition to the reader, which is what I usually, at least for the course of this class, like to argue. While making a heavy point about feminism in and sex based issues in an autobiography, she clearly and concisely defines what she is refering to, autobiography. She then plunges into psycho-analyzing feminist texts and comparing them to the likes of St. Augustine's Confessions and the background of femine texts as compared to that of their male counterparts. Of course historically female texts weren't widely accepted so the art of autobiography is somewhat new in a sense which helps this text make a little more sense to me.