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In this collection of autobiographical writing 12 women who grew into feminism in the 1970s look back on their childhoods. Some of the contributors grew up in homes of pinching poverty, others in an unbending orderliness, and others in an easy security. But the two great landmarks of this post-war Britain - the Welfare State and the Education Act - were a common feature which gave many of the girls a sense of possibility and of aspiration to a different future.
The contributors include Alison Fell, Harriett Gilbert, Alison Hennegan, Liz Heron, Ursula Huws, Gail Lewis, Julia Pascal, Stef Pixner, Denise Riley, Sheila Rowbotham, Carolyn Steedman and Valerie Walkerdine. The editor is the author of "Changes of Heart: Reflections on Women's Independence".
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'This is a marvellous selection of autobiographical recollections... haunting and vivid essays of the way things were.' Beryl Bainbridge, The Guardian
'Again and again, the writing calls up splendidly vivid images, audible voices, places and people that have the special looming, close-up quality that belongs to childhood experience.... It was the orange juice, the schooling, the access to higher education that enabled these women to find ways of living and working so different from their mothers'.... The quality of the writing in itself suggests how valuable, how much of an investment, those "free" things were.' Lorna Sage, The Observer
'Some of the writing is exuberant, some ironical, some hedged about with pain, but all is deeply expressive and unsentimental... It is compulsive reading.' Olivia Harris, New Statesman
'Truth, Dare or Promise gave a dozen versions of autobiography, a dozen versions of the 50s – evocative, too, for men who grew up in that decade.' Malcolm Imrie, City Limits
'Again and again, the writing calls up splendidly vivid images, audible voices, places and people that have the special looming, close-up quality that belongs to childhood experience.... It was the orange juice, the schooling, the access to higher education that enabled these women to find ways of living and working so different from their mothers'.... The quality of the writing in itself suggests how valuable, how much of an investment, those "free" things were.' Lorna Sage, The Observer
'Some of the writing is exuberant, some ironical, some hedged about with pain, but all is deeply expressive and unsentimental... It is compulsive reading.' Olivia Harris, New Statesman
'Truth, Dare or Promise gave a dozen versions of autobiography, a dozen versions of the 50s – evocative, too, for men who grew up in that decade.' Malcolm Imrie, City Limits
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- PublisherVirago
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0860685969
- ISBN 13 9780860685968
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages248
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