Working it out
Subtitle: 23 women writers, artists, scientists, and scholars talk about their lives and work
By: edited by Sara Ruddick and Pamela Daniels ; with a foreword by Adrienne Rich.
Contributors: Ruddick, Sara, 1935-; Daniels, Pamela, 1937-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Women artists -- Biography.; Women authors -- Biography.; Women scientists -- Biography.; Women college teachers -- Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Hamod, K. K. Finding new forms.; title: Lyndon, A. A. Juxtapositions.; title: Rorty, A. Dependency, individuality, and work.; title: Daniels, P. Birth of the amateur.; title: Stimpson, C. R. On work.; title: Keller, E. F. The anomaly of a woman in physics.; title: Walker, A. In search of our mother's gardens.; title: Stevens, M. Work and my working class father.; title: Green, J. Scenes.; title: Ruddick, S. A work of one's own; title: Michener, D. G. Catching the sun.; title: Valian, V. Learning to work.; title: Yu, C. Y. Notes from an extra in the American moving picture show.; title: Lasoff, A. Writing in the real world.; title: Young, M. Contradictions.; title: Thornton, N. Plain truth.; title: Weisstein, N. "How can a little girl like you teach a great big class of men?" the chairman said, and other adventures of a woman in science.; title: Sears, C. What counts as work?; title: Mengel, N. V. Coming of age the long way around.; title: Schapiro, M. Notes from a conversation on art, feminism, and work.; title: Gilbert, C. The sacred fire.; title: Olsen, T. One out of twelve: women who are writers in our century.