Is Memoir Writing Women’s Work?

Francesca Singer
Nov 6 · 5 min read

If not, then why the man-shaped hole in the memoir canon?

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When women hit 40, something amazing happens: women around you begin to reveal their closeted desire to write a memoir. Some of them are already writing them; others still coaxing the courage to conjure the ghosts from deep within. But they all want to write their story.

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Francesca Singer

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Freelance Writer. Feminist former farmer. American immigrant in France. Dangling in the middle of the endless tug of war between tragedy and comedy.

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