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Narratives of women’s lives, biographies and autobiographies of and by women, have appeared in print rather infrequently until recent years. Some writers have speculated about the reason for such scarcity. It seems that in a man’s world the comings and goings of men and their adventures and misadventures were considered of greater consequence and worth recording. Women had taken (or have been relegated to) a backseat, so to speak, in the public life of society, and the resulting meager literary record reflected this state of affairs (Heilbrun, 1988).
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Rabin, A.I. (1991). Prologue View of a Man Who Has Spent a Lifetime on Personality Research and Theory. In: Carp, F.M. (eds) Lives of Career Women. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6447-2_1
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