Memoirs and Meaning

Jill Ker Conway reflects on the meanings and influences that certain memoirs had upon her formation, including those of social worker Jane Adams and birth control activist Margaret Sanger. She emphasizes the notion of a drama as a reflection of the human condition and the role that religious traditions have in promoting real memoirs that inspire and motivate.https://ecommons.udayton.edu/uscc_marianist_award/1010/thumbnail.jp

Getting to know Canada

Item consists of a digitized copy of a video recording of a Vancouver Institute lecture given by Jill Ker Conway on February 4,1995. Original video recording available in the University Archives (UBC VT 341).Non UBCUnreviewedOthe

The Trailblazing Women and the Law Project

This article seeks to alert the readership of the Alternative Law Journal to an ongoing project on Trailblazing Women and the Law (‘The Trailblazing Project’). The Trailblazing Project, funded in part by the Australian Research Council under its Linkage grant system,(1) aims to create, showcase and analyse the experiences of seven decades of Australia’s pioneer, ‘trailblazing’, women lawyers.(2) Inthis contribution I offer a brief introduction to the Trailblazing Project and the oral history interviews completed to date and the aims of the Project, which bring together the disciplines of gender, oral history, biography, law and citizenship, social networks and cultural informatics, and ePublication and women’s history archiving.(3