Carolyn G. HeilbrunWriting a Woman’s LifeWith a new introduction by Katha Pollitt“A provocative study that should be in every writer’s library.”—Washington PostIn 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. “Accessible, engaging and compelling. It will be read with great pleasure and interest by general readers alike and should be required reading for all women before they turn 21.”—New York Times Book Review “A wide-ranging study both personal and feminist, [it] asserts that patriarchal culture has not only defined the limits of women’s lives, it has determined what stories about women will be told.”—San Francisco Chronicle Carolyn G. Heilbrun (1926–2003) was a professor of English at Columbia University. A force in literary and feminist theory, she also wrote mysteries under the pen name Amanda Cross. |
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August 2008 / hardcover / ISBN 978-0-393-33164-6 |
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