Editorial Note: Individual Lives: Windows on Women's History

A Noticeable Woman in the Public Sphere: The Life of Israeli Journalist Hannah Semer (1924–2003)

“…One of the hallmarks in constructing narratives of individual women's lives has been to foreground the interplay between the personal and the political. Indeed, feminist biographers believe that the public or intellectual lives of their subjects cannot be re-created without understanding their private actions and intimate relations (Quataert and Wheeler 2012;Ware 2012).…”