Writing a Woman's Life
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (716 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393026019 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Professor Heilbrun notes that the diversity of women's lives now makes it possible for women to dare to choose their own scripts.. A woman's journey ended at the altar. Of the two basic plots that shape our lives, the quest and the erotic script, the quest has been, for centuries, reserved for men only
"Five Stars" according to Sally Morrison. Just right for my research. Revisiting women's lives The best respect we can pay the dead, I believe, is to honor the work they did. When I learned of Heilbrun's death last month, I turned to her books--the mysteries she wrote as Amanda Cross and the literary and cultural criticism she published under her own name. The first time I read Writing a Woman's Life was my junior or senior year in college. I was already familiar with feminist literary criticism, but Heilbrun's thesis was new to me: that even extraordinary wome. Every Woman Writer's Must Have Book Heilbrun names 1973 as the turning point for modern women's autobiography. May Sarton wrote "Plant Dreaming Deep," a memoir about buying a house and living alone. She was dismayed to discover she'd left out the rage, struggle and despair in the memoir. She wrote "Journal of a Solitude" to reclaim the pain. Thus it is a watershed in women's autobiography.Too many biographies about women, written by men - and other women - contain the language of men, and are written in
Recommended reading for everyone, especially women and writers. 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