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(0)Jill K Conway
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In recent years, the memoir has been celebrated as our liveliest literary genre and condemned as the confessional mode of a self-obsessed society. Now Jill Ker Conway, herself the author of two highly praised volumes of autobiography, turns her attention to some of the most notable examples of the form since Saint Augustine wrote his Confessions sixteen centuries ago. From the luminous spirituality of twelfth-century abbess Hildegard of Bingen to...
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"Taking Women Seriously closely examines successful women's colleges to identify their distinctive characteristics and determine how these characteristics contribute to the success of their graduates."--BOOK JACKET. "This work stresses that what works at women's colleges can be applied to coeducational institutions of higher education. The authors contend that all colleges should incorporate these important features in their campus environments and...