Publication

1996-10-29 - Ballantine Books

Language

English

Word Count

124,000 words, Guess

Page Count

496 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • Internet Archiveeducationofwoman00caro
  • ISBN-100345406214
  • ISBN-139780345406217
  • Goodreads99178
  • LibraryThing605578
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  • Better World BooksO7-AVD-689
  • Better World Books9780345406217
  • Better World BooksO7-DAQ-867
  • Open LibraryOL9485234M

Classifications

  • LCCHQ1413.S675
  • LCCHQ1413.S675 H44 1995

Description

Carolyn G. Heilbrun has devoted her life to the study of female destiny. In her now-classic Writing a Woman's Life, she eloquently revealed that those who have written about women's lives throughout the centuries have suppressed the truth of the female experience in order to make the written life conform to society's expectations of what a woman's life should be. In that book Heilbrun drew on the experiences of celebrated literary women - George Sand, Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich - to invite all women to write their own scripts, without inhibition. Now, in The Education of a Woman, Heilbrun draws on the life of one of the most controversial women of our time, a woman who most definitely, in word and in deed, wrote her own script. According to Heilbrun, Steinem "searched within her own gender for a destiny unconstrained and unprescribed - for herself, and for other women less unambiguously at home in their bodies."

First Sentence

THE TEMPTATION TO discover the heritage of previous generations and the impact of that heritage upon an individual is as powerful as it is elusive.

Excerpt

THE TEMPTATION TO discover the heritage of previous generations and the impact of that heritage upon an individual is as powerful as it is elusive.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria SteinemPaperbackBallantine Books1996-10-29

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