Writing a Woman's Life
"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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393331646 (0393331644)
ASIN: 0393331644
Publish date: 2008-08-17
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Language,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Art,
Feminism,
Womens,
Womens Studies
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