Women's Lives into Print: The Theory, Practice and Writing of Feminist Auto/Biography (review)

Abstract

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction SECTION 1: THEORY - PUTTING WOMEN'S LIVES INTO PRINT: FEMINIST ETHICS, METHODOLOGIES & EPISTEMOLOGIES How Do We Know Past Lives? Methodological and Epistemological Matters Involving Prince Philip, the Russian Revolution, Emily Wilding Davidson, my Mum and the Absent Sue L.Stanley Terrible Times: Experience, Ethnicity and Auto/Biography B.Temple Memory, Truth and Orality: The Lives of Northern Women Textile Workers C.Kenney Feminist Ethics and Issues in the Production and Use of Life History Research L.Forest & J.Giles SECTION 2: PRACTICE - RECOVERING AND READING WOMEN'S LIVES: INTERPRETATIVE ISSUES 'Recuperating' the Love-Passions of Edith Simcox P.Polkey-Taylor Travelling Towards Selfhood - Victorian Religion and the Process of Female Identity J.West-Burnham Other People's Truths? Scientific Subjects in the Personal Recollections, From Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville J.Swindells Alice Havergal Skillicorn, Principal of Homerton College, Cambridge, 1935-60: Gender and Power E.Edwards When Writing the Other is Being True to the Self: Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother A.Donnell Self-image and Occupational Identity: Barbadian Nurses in Post-war Britain J.Hallam The Lives of Indira Gandhi K.Frank SECTION 3: WRITING _ REPRESENTING WOMEN'S LIVES: THE LIFE-HISTORY PROJECT A Good School Revisited M.Evans The Most Difficult Door C.Byron Digging Up Tangled Roots: Feminism and Resistance to White Working-class Culture V.Walsh The Swashbuckler, the Landlubbing Wimp and the Women in Between: Myself as Pirate(ss) J.Stanley Index