| Writing a Woman's Life |  | Author: Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Creator: Katha Pollitt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 486,416
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 160
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 6.3 x 0.4
ISBN: 0393331644
EAN: 9780393331646
ASIN: 0393331644
Publication Date: August 17, 2008
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"A provocative study that should be in every writer's library."—Washington Post In this modern classic, Carolyn G. Heilbrun builds an eloquent argument demonstrating that writers conform all too often to society's expectations of what women should be like at the expense of the truth of the female experience. Drawing on the careers of celebrated authors including Virginia Woolf, George Sand, and Dorothy Sayers, Heilbrun illustrates the struggle these writers undertook in both work and life to break away from traditional "male" scripts for women's roles.
Amazon.com Review
With subtlety and great eloquence, Carolyn Heilbrun shows how, throughout the centuries, those who write about women's lives--biographers andautobiographers--have suppressed the truth of the female experience, in order to make the "written life" conform to the expectations of what that life should be. Heilbrun also examines literature's silence on such vital topics as friendship between women, the female physical experience, and the richness that often imbues a women's later years. Recommended reading for everyone, especially women and writers.
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