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After spending 18 months gathering women’s stories for my doctoral dissertation (Bell, 2010), I could not think of a more appropriate way to allow their voices to come across, to convey the openness and honesty my collaborators had shown me. My ‘participant data’ was all in the form of an exchange of letters via email, mostly individually, between me and the seven women who had enthusiastically accepted my invitation to collaborate in what I called “an ongoing conversation” —an exploration of ourselves and our lives through remembering where we have been alongside our current experiences of becoming older.
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Bell, C. (2014). Visible Women. In: Speedy, J., Wyatt, J. (eds) Creative Practitioner Inquiry in the Helping Professions. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-743-8_13
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