Sisterhood and After An Oral History of the UK Women's Liberation Movement, 1968-present

Margaretta Jolly is based at the University of Sussex in England, where she is Professor of Cultural Studies and director of the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research. Margaretta's work has focused on auto/biography, letter writing and oral history, particularly in relation to women's movements. She is the editor of The Encyclopedia of Life Writing (2001) and author of In Love and Struggle: Letters in Contemporary Feminism (2008), for which she won the Feminist and Women's Studies Association UK Book Prize. Working with the British Library in London, Margaretta directed Sisterhood and After: The Womens Liberation Oral History Project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. She currently leads The Business of Women's Words: Purpose and Profit in Feminist Publishing, funded by the Leverhulme and partnered with the British Library.