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... by Chinese men in the United States. Biography is an ideal genre for bringing attention to the personal as worthy of historical attention. The women’s liberation mantra, “the personal is political,” demands attention to the micro-dynamics of power. Analyzing everyday interactions holds the possibility...

... identifies how the authors both build upon and innovatively expand the overlapping concepts of “the personal is political” and intersectional identities. They raise new questions about authorial experience, the inseparability of race, gender, and sexual politics, and the complexity of historical...