Her autobiography Fifty Years a Feminist was published in 2021.
Her book, titled Eating Safely in a Toxic World, set the scene in New Zealand for a new movement of 'safe-food campaigners'. Kedgley has written a number of books on feminist issues, and was one of the founding leaders of the women's liberation movement in New Zealand. She was unable to become a presenter, being told at the time that women couldn't because their voices "aren't deep enough and they lack authority". Kedgley was employed as a researcher on the show Checkpoint.
Kedgley's Master of Arts thesis in political science was submitted to the University of Otago in 1972. That same year she stood for the Auckland City Council as a Labour Party candidate. She then studied at the University of Auckland and in 1971, while still a student, she founded the Women's Liberation Group (part of the Women's liberation movement) after realising there was no such existing group at the university. Kedgley became involved in student politics and was a member of the Victoria University of Wellington Students' Association from 1967 to 1969.
While studying at Victoria she became interested in politics, a subject she had previously little to do with. Along with her twin sister Helen Kedgley, she went to Samuel Marsden Collegiate School and later Victoria University. Kedgley stated she had a sheltered upbringing being given a 'proper' girls upbringing and was a debutante.
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