The Oral History and Biography (including memoir and autobiography) channel is an Australian-based publishing project devoted to both the craft and realisation of oral history and biography, the capturing of life stories. Its masthead features photographic portraits of the psychologically-minded novelist, Virginia Woolf, and the Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, to immediately signify the channel’s interest in psychology and in what drives people to think, act and live in the way that they do. The duality of Woolf and Freud is also to establish from the outset the channel’s devotion to the stories of women and men in equal measure and, overtime, seeks to redress the balance accorded disproportionately to men’s lives over and above and often to the exclusion of women’s lives.
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