In Her Own Time: A Class Reunion Inspires a Cultural History of Women - Softcover

Maggie Siggins

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006386296 ISBN 13: 9780006386292

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2001

Synopsis

It all started with an R.H. King Collegiate class of ’61 reunion: 26 women meeting 30 years after their graduation. Siggins was struck by their wide range of fascinating life stories. These, after all, were the women who were born during the war, had come of age in the ’60s, and were changed by the women’s movement of the ’70s. They had all stood at the forefront of one of the greatest revolutions in history the emancipation of half the human race.

Inspired by that reunion, Siggins set out to write the life stories of her classmates, using the emerging themes from these intense dramas as a gateway to explore women’s lives throughout history. The result is a compelling series of personal journeys linked by nothing less than an absorbing cultural history of women in the Western world, from antiquity to the present.

A book that speaks powerfully to people of all ages and especially those of “the cusp generation” In Her Own Time is an inspiring, informative and wholly entertaining read.

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About the Author

Maggie Siggins is the author of Revenge ofthe Land, which won the Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction in 1992. She is also the author of A Canadian Tragedy, The Colin Thatcher Story, which became a highly-rated television mini-series, Love and Hate, in Canada and around the world. A native of Toronto, Maggie Siggins now lives in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0006386296
• ISBN 13: 9780006386292
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English