Women’s Lives into Print: The Theory, Practice and Writing of Feminist Auto/Biography

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
How Do We Know about Past Lives?....Pages 3-21
Terrible Times: Experience, Ethnicity and Auto/Biography....Pages 22-33
Memory, Truth and Orality: the Lives of Northern Women Textile Workers....Pages 34-43
Feminist Ethics and Issues in the Production and Use of Life History Research....Pages 44-58
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Recuperating the Love-Passions of Edith Simcox....Pages 61-79
Travelling towards Selfhood: Victorian Religion and the Process of Female Identity....Pages 80-95
Other People’s Truths? Scientific Subjects in the Personal Recollections, From Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville ....Pages 96-108
Alice Havergal Skillicorn, Principal of Homerton College, Cambridge, 1935–60: Gender and Power....Pages 109-122
When Writing the Other is Being True to the Self: Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother....Pages 123-136
Self-Image and Occupational Identity: Barbadian Nurses in Post-War Britain....Pages 137-151
The Lives of Indira Gandhi....Pages 152-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
A Good School Revisited....Pages 173-184
The Most Difficult Door....Pages 185-196
Digging Up Tangled Roots: Feminism and Resistance to White Working-Class Culture....Pages 197-215
The Swashbuckler, the Landlubbing Wimp and the Woman in Between: Myself as Pirate(ss)....Pages 216-228
Back Matter....Pages 229-238