{"product_id":"in-her-own-words-9780679781530","title":"In Her Own Words","description":"Jill Ker Conway, author of one of the most celebrated memoirs of recent decades, is also the premier anthologist of women's autobiographical writing. \u003ci\u003eIn Her Own Words\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncludes writing from: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Patricia Adam-Smith Lillian Hellman\u003cbr\u003e Rosemary Brown Dorothy Hewett\u003cbr\u003e Kim Chernin Robin Hyde\u003cbr\u003e Shirley Chisholm Dorothy Livesay\u003cbr\u003e Lauris Edmond Sally Morgan\u003cbr\u003e Janet Frame Gabrielle Roy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679781530\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.72h x 5.60w x 1.55d","brand":"Jill Ker Conway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36639914164380,"sku":"9780679781530","price":19.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a81e5f2b-342a-4162-a804-3c1e8b4bfcff.jpg?v=1607546127","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/in-her-own-words-9780679781530","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}