Epilogue

Abstract Starting in the 1970s, feminists drew attention to the underrepresentation of women as biographical subjects and then offered new tools for discovering and telling women’s lives, an intervention that influenced the field of biography as a whole. Feminist biography posits that women’s lives are fundamentally different from men’s (because of deeply ingrained social and political conditions, not biology), and that telling those lives necessitates an approach that is sensitive to those differences. Increasingly fluid ideas about gender identity call for new ways to tell lives. Feminist biography’s most important contribution to the larger feminist project is the body of knowledge it has uncovered about the diversity and complexity of women’s lives and the commitment to use those insights to continue the fight for women’s equality.