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Offers an assessment of the author's life, passions, possibilities and the making of her decision to leave Canada and return to the United States to become Smith's first woman president.

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This distillation of women's experience from the British Commonwealth and the United States includes contributions by Shirley Chisholm, Janet Frame, Rosemary Brown, Dorothy Livesay, Gabrielle Roy, and Kim Chernin.

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Selections from the autobiographies of twenty-five women, including Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Steinem, Jane Addams, Margaret Bourke-White, Maxine Hong Kingston, Maya Angelou, Margaret Mead, and Margaret Sanger.

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Jill Ker Conway grew up in New South Wales in the 1940s and '50s. This is her account of an Australian childhood in the outback, and subsequently in Sydney, encompassing family tragedy, a devastating struggle with the desert environment, and an evocation of the Australian landscape.

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Focusing on writers over the centuries, the author explores the continuing popularity of autobiographies and accounts for the differences in form and style in men's and women's narratives.