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

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Jill Ker Conway Jill Ker Conway

In Her Own Words

Women's Memoirs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States

Jill Ker Conway, Jill Ker Conway

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Vintage Books
22 October 1999

Biography: general; Gender studies: women

Women's Memoirs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States

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 Wordsis 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 BrownDorothy Hewett

Kim CherninRobin Hyde

Shirley ChisholmDorothy Livesay

Lauris EdmondSally Morgan

Janet FrameGabrielle Roy

By: Jill Ker Conway
Introduction by: Jill Ker Conway
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 734g
ISBN: 9780679781530
ISBN 10: 0679781536
Pages: 624
Publication Date: 22 October 1999
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , A / AS level , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jill Ker Conway was born in Hillston, New South Wales, Australia, graduated from the University of Sydney in 1958, and received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1969. In 1962 she married John Conway and moved with him to his native Canada. From 1964 to 1975 she taught at the University of Toronto, where she was also Vice President, before going to Smith College. Since 1985 she has been a visiting scholar and professor in MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society. She serves on the boards of Nike, Merrill Lynch, and Colgate-Palmolive, and as Chairman of Lend Lease Corporation. She lives in Boston.