In Her Own Words: Women's Memoirs from Australia, New Zealand,

In Her Own Words: Women's Memoirs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States
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Jill Ker Conway, author of one of the most celebrated memoirs of recent decades, is also the premier anthologist of women's autobiographical writing.Â In Her Own WordsÂ 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 womenâ‚¬"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 differenceâ‚¬"by their honesty, by the scale of their struggle for self-knowledge and autonomy, and by the power of their writing.

Includes writing from:

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Patricia Adam-SmithÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Lillian Hellman
Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Rosemary BrownÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Dorothy Hewett
Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Kim CherninÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Robin Hyde
Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Shirley ChisholmÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Dorothy Livesay
Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Lauris EdmondÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Sally Morgan
Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Janet FrameÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Gabrielle Roy
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0679781536_used
Color Cream
ReleaseDate 1999-03-09
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780679781530

Country	USA
Brand	Vintage
Manufacturer	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	0679781536_used
Color	Cream
ReleaseDate	1999-03-09
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780679781530

In Her Own Words: Women's Memoirs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States

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