Volume 1, No. 1 – 2001 Women and Autobiography Vol. I - No.1 - January 2001 Editorial Women and Autobiography Editorial by G. S. Jayasree Articles Treading the common ground: Collective consciousness in women’s autobiography by Lalitha RamamoorthyThe quest for the woman’s self: Virginia woolf and the lives of the obscure by Evangeline Shanti RoyFrom philomela to the nightingale: The autobiographical song of Maya Angelou by Hema R. NairWomen and autobiography: Maria campbell’s half breed in retrospect by Maya DuttMahatma Gandhi by USHA MENONThe Stray Goats of the Bazaar: A Survey of Autobiographies in Malayalam by Women by HEMALATHA DEVI. G.From the Tapestry of my Memories by LILY GEORGEPolitics of Knowledge and Women by LALITHA LENINWomen’s Histography by T.K ANANDIThe Punnapra – Vayalar Revolt and the Freedom Movement by N. SASIDHARANPolitical Reservation and Empowerment of Women by USHA K.B. Features Simone de Beauvoir: Woman Extraordinaire by USHA V.TWomen – Educate, be Enlightened; Organise, be Powerful by K. RETNAMMA Fiction The Performers by NEERADA SURESHMadhu by Catherine Thankamma Interview Kamala Das – Excerpts by KAMALA DAS Poetry The Pen by BALAMONI AMMAA Spring from the Misty Mountain by ROSEMARYTea by NEERADA SURESHNo Longer just a Woman by SULOCHANA RAMMOHANIn Search of a Beloved Pearl by P. SYAMALA DEVIThe Unknown Conception by MANJUSHREE S. KUMARUnified Separateness by BINI B.S.Geometry by S. MURALI Translation Asoka by Sarah JosephThe (post-modern) story of Jyoti Viswanath by Chandrika BalanThe disruputed coronation by K.B SrideviSayani Bhua by Manu Bhandari & Usha Menon