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Women's Lives Into Print

The Theory, Practice and Writing of Feminist Auto/Biography

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  • © 1999

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  1. Pauline Polkey

    1. Nottingham Trent University, UK

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  3. Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. Recuperating the Love-Passions of Edith Simcox

      • Pauline Polkey
      Pages 61-79

    3. Travelling towards Selfhood: Victorian Religion and the Process of Female Identity

      • Joss West-Bumham
      Pages 80-95

    4. Other People’s Truths? Scientific Subjects in the Personal Recollections, From Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville

      • Julia Swindells
      Pages 96-108

    5. Alice Havergal Skillicorn, Principal of Homerton College, Cambridge, 1935–60: Gender and Power

      • Elizabeth Edwards
      Pages 109-122

    6. When Writing the Other is Being True to the Self: Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother

      • Alison Donnell
      Pages 123-136

    7. Self-Image and Occupational Identity: Barbadian Nurses in Post-War Britain

      • Julia Hallam
      Pages 137-151

    8. The Lives of Indira Gandhi

      • Katherine Frank
      Pages 152-169

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 229-238
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About this book

Women's Lives into Print provides a remarkable collection of essays by feminist scholars and writers who focus on the theory, practice and writing of women's auto/biographies. Not only does it foster debate about the reading and interpretation of women's lives, it also explores issues relating to research methodology, and raises questions about the representation of women within feminist auto/biography. Working across a range of subject disciplines, this book comprises a vital and ground-breaking critical text for anyone interested in auto/biography.

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"Recommended for all academic collections." - Choice

"This collection of British scholars presenting materials about dimensions of the life-writing fields can hardly fail to interest readers. . .[A] surprisingly good read." - Biography

Editors and Affiliations

  • Nottingham Trent University, UK

    Pauline Polkey

About the editor

CATHERINE BYRON Read Medieval Literature at Somerville College, Oxford ALISON DONNELL Teaches Post-Colonial Literature, Nottingham Trent University ELIZABETH EDWARDS Senior Research Associate, Homerton College, Cambridge MARY EVANS Teaches Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Kent LESLEY FORREST Teaches Women's Studies and Sociology, University College, Ripon JUDY GILES Senior Lecturer, University College, Ripon and York St.John KATHERINE FRANK Author of three biographies (Mary Kingsley, Emily Bronte and Lucie Duff Gordon) JULIA HALLAM Teaches Communication Studies, Liverpool University CHRISTINE KENNY Senior Lecturer, South Bank University JO STANLEY Co-ordinator of the National Maritime Museum's Women and the Sea Network LIZ STANLEY Author on feminist issues JULIA SWINDELLS Teaches at Homerton College, Cambridge BOGUSIA TEMPLE Senior Research Fellow, Manchester University VAL WALSH Freelance writer, researcher, editor and tutor JOSS WEST-BURNHAM Subject Leader, Cultural Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University

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