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Shaping A Life Shaping A Life
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How To Read A Life How To Read A Life
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Framing The Picture Framing The Picture
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Exemplary Conduct Exemplary Conduct
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Compliment And Comportment Compliment And Comportment
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Exemplarity In Death Exemplarity In Death
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Taking Pride Taking Pride
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Indirect Exemplarity: the Qualities of a Good Woman Indirect Exemplarity: the Qualities of a Good Woman
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Vying with the men Vying with the men
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Exemplary Precedents Exemplary Precedents
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Drawing Conclusions Drawing Conclusions
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The poet’s platform The poet’s platform
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Other Sources, Sources of Otherness Other Sources, Sources of Otherness
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Exemplar or Exception? Exemplar or Exception?
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3 Exemplar and Exception: Biography in the Journal for Women
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Published:July 2001
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A biography of celebrated medieval French writer Christine de Pizan (1364–1430) appears in Young Woman of the East in March 1938. This chapter turns to the rhetoric of exemplarity and generalization, which, it argues, signaled for readers the didactic primacy of the genre. To make its argument that “Famous Women” biographies comprised a textual intervention in the woman question more complex than it might appear, it may not be necessary to address that fraught question of “authorial intent.” The chapter concludes by examining practices of gendered biography writing in North America and Europe to suggest common features of exemplary writing that writers in Egypt might have blended with their own knowledge of the Arabic biographical tradition.
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