Writing a Woman's Life
Contributors: Katha Politt (Introduction)
Publisher: W. W. Norton; W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: August 4, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780393331646
Subjects: Sociology - General; Women; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Women's Studies; General; Language Arts & Disciplines; Sociology; Language
First sentence: THIS IS the true story of a woman who was born exactly a century before Freud published The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.
Description: 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, she illustrates the struggle these writers undertook in both work and life to break away from traditional 'male' scripts for women's roles"--Back cover.