Magnificent obsessions : honouring the lives of Hazel Rowley / / edited by Rosemary Lloyd and Jean Fornasiero

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815346403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013; ©2013
• ISBN: 1-4438-6575-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 920.72
• Soggetti: Women - 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; POEM; PREFACE; HAZEL ROWLEY'S PUBLICATIONS; INTRODUCTION; POEM; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; INTERLUDE; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; INTERLUDE TWO; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; INTERLUDE THREE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; POEM; CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume is a tribute to the life and work of Hazel Rowley, internationally acclaimed biographer who died unexpectedly in March 2011. Her passions were many and varied: biography, politics, questions of race and sexuality, the ways in which couples negotiate the dilemmas posed by the need to retain their individuality while building a life as a couple, the deleterious effects of imposing a corporate mentality on universities - all these, and more, were subjects of intense interest to her. ...