The first point is that when men write about their experiences in a political context, it’s never called “confessional” – it’s just “literature”, or a “memoir”. The second is that male political experience is never coded as male – it’s just universal truth.
New Statesman | The feminist writer’s dilemma: how to write about the personal, without becoming the story

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