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Weiner, Gaby – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2008
This paper considers Olive Banks' work on charting the history and development of British feminism, and particularly her use of collective biography as a research and analytic tool. It is argued that while this has been seen as the least "fashionable" aspect of her work, it took forward C. Wright Mills' contention for one definition of…
Descriptors: Feminism, Research Methodology, Biographies, Foreign Countries
Weiner, Gaby – 2003
This paper explores the difficulty of claims to truth in the analysis of the life of the Victorian feminist, reformer, educationist, and celebrity, Harriet Martineau (1802-76). She was widely known as a truthful person. For example, her contemporary, the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, wrote in 1845 that "her love of the truth is proverbial…
Descriptors: Biographies, Educational Research, Females, Feminism