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Jill Ker Conway
True North is the inspirational Canadian Chapter of Jill Ker Conway’s life story, which began with her much love, bestselling memoir, The Road from Coorain. Beginning with her departure from…
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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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A beautifully-illustrated story by New York Times best-selling author Jill Ker Conway, now in Spanish.
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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A woman of intellect and ambition describes growing up on an Australian ranch, coping with her father’s death and her mother’s depression, her intellectual awakening at the university, and her…
David A. Greene
This study analyses how Jill Ker Conway, first woman president of Smith College, Massachusetts, US, implemented programmatic initiatives and changes to Smith’s institutional culture that fitted with her vision for…
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Jill K Conway
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.
Jill Kathryn Conway
The Road From Coorain is the beautifully written narrative of Conway’s journey from girlhood on an isolated sheep-farm in the grasslands of Australia to her departure for America (and eventually…
Experts in a variety of disciplines explore women’s new roles in sport, politics, corporate America, and the professions, identifying arenas of success as well as persistent limits and barriers to…
