Text and Image in Women's Life Writing

Introduction - Valérie Baisnée-Keay.- Part One: Image-ing Identity.- 1 Thinking through the Book and Reimagining the Page: Julie Chen's Artists' Books and Faith Ringgold's Story Quilts - Hertha D. Wong.- 2 '[Un]systematic, even with the image': Text-image Blurring, Self-Inquiry and Ontological Anxiety in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's works - Marie-Agnès Gay.- 3 A Visual-Verbal-Virtual Redefinition of Womanhood by Janet Mock - Aurelia Mouzet.- 4 Authoritatively Her/Self: Georgia O'Keeffe's Life Writing - Edyta Frelik.- Part Two: Reframing Memories.- 5 Fun Homes and Queer Houses of Memory in Alison Bechdel's Graphic Memoirs - Heloise Thomas.- 6 Framing herself then and now: Shirley Geok-lin Lim and the Evolving Practice of Photo Albums - Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni.- 7 Nostalgic Albums or Alternative Lieux de mémoire? The interplay between stories, photographs, and illustrated recipes in ethnic culinary memoirs by women - Corinne Bigot.- Part Three: Elusive Textual/Visual Referentiality.- 8 Zelda Fitzgerald's Self-Portraiture: A Strenuous Performance from Ink to Gouache - Elisabeth Bouzonviller.- 9 Isabella Bird-Bishop's 1897 journey up the Yangtze Valley and Beyond: Beyond the Writing/ Photographing Divide - Floriane Reviron-Piégay.- 10 A Woman's Life of War Pictures: Elizabeth Butler (1846-1933) - Nathalie Saudo-Welby.- 11 Whistler's (Mother's) Daughter: Image-Text Relations in Marilyn French's Fictionalized (Auto)biography - Stephanie Genty.- Part Four: Visual/Textual Embodiment.- 12 It Is Difficult to Find the Words": The Image-Text Interface in Lynn Kohlman's Cancer Auto/biography - Marta Fernández-Morales.- 13 Creating Together an 'Unexpected Home': Navigating the Matrixial Borderspace through Text and Image in Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document (1973-79) - Justyna Wierzchowska.