Intimate ephemera : reading young lives in Australian zine culture / Anna Poletti.

"Intimate Ephemera is the first major study of autobiographical writing produced and consumed in a youth subculture. Anna Poletti examines a unique community of life writing and reading where handmade texts circulate in an economy of gifting and exchange, analysing the diversity of materials and narrative strategies used in personal zines. Situating personal zines within larger practices and discourses such as consciousness raising and do-it-yourself political and cultural movements, Intimate Ephemera argues that autobiography criticism and cultural studies must become more attentive to the materiality of texts, as well as the diverse sites and contexts in which the writing and reading of life narrative occurs."