| In Her Own Words: Women's Memoirs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States Contributor(s): Conway, Jill Ker (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679781536 ISBN-13: 9780679781530 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $21.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1999 Annotation: Conway's distillation of women's experience from the British Commonwealth world and the United States includes contributions by Shirley Chisholm, Janet Frame, Rosemary Brown, Dorothy Livesay, Gabrielle Roy, Kim Chernin, and others. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 98-44745 |
| Physical Information: 1.55" H x 5.6" W x 8.72" (1.78 lbs) 624 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Jill Ker Conway, author of one of the most celebrated memoirs of recent decades, is also the premier anthologist of women's autobiographical writing. In Her Own Words is Conway's distillation of women's experience from the British Commonwealth world she came from, compared with major themes in women's lives in the United States, which is now her home. In this dazzling collection, we meet twelve remarkable women--from Shirley Chisholm, the West Indian-raised girl who became the first black woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress, to Janet Frame, the brilliant New Zealand writer who overcame involuntary treatment in a mental institution to write one of the archetypal analyses of the postcolonial experience. We learn how the world of politics and the private self intersect in the four offshoots of the old British world, and see how these women have made a difference--by their honesty, by the scale of their struggle for self-knowledge and autonomy, and by the power of their writing. Includes writing from: Patricia Adam-Smith Lillian Hellman Rosemary Brown Dorothy Hewett Kim Chernin Robin Hyde Shirley Chisholm Dorothy Livesay Lauris Edmond Sally Morgan Janet Frame Gabrielle Roy |