Reinventing Womanhood Contributor(s): Heilbrun, Carolyn G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393310760 ISBN-13: 9780393310764 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 1993 Annotation: Heilbrun's important investigation into issues of identity for 20th-century American women probes the problem with past models and the ongoing task of creating new ones today. "Essential reading for anyone interested not only in the future of womanhood but in the stimulating possibilities for liberation of both sexes".--Chicago Tribune Book World. |
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BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Sociology - General |
Dewey: 301.41 |
LCCN: 00000000 |
Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.46" W x 8.25" L (0.55 lbs) 246 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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Publisher Description: Men have monopolized human experience, leaving women unable to imagine themselves as both ambitious and female. If I imagine myself (woman has always asked) whole, active, a self, will I not cease, in some profound way, to be a woman? The answer must be: imagine, and the old idea of womanhood be damned. . . . Let us imagine ourselves as selves, as at once striving and female. Womanhood can be what we say it is, not what they have always told us it was. |
Contributor Bio(s): Heilbrun, Carolyn G.: - Carolyn G. Heilbrun (1926-2003) was a professor of English at Columbia University. A force in literary and feminist theory, she also wrote mysteries under the pen name Amanda Cross. |
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