As literature scholar and archivist Jolie Braun writes, drawing on three memoirs from this era, women in that line of work had some distinct advantages but also faced serious hardships, both physical and social.
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Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
18 Sep. 2026
Mandela’s second volume of memoirs was unfinished at the time of his death in 2013.
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