Writing a Woman's Life
29 July 2008
Territory Rights — Worldwide including Canada, but excluding the British Commonwealth.
Description
"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.
Also By: Carolyn G. Heilbrun 
Toward a Recognition of Androgyny
Paperback, 1993
Reinventing Womanhood
Paperback, 1993
Carolyn Heilbrun's important investigation into issues of identity for twentieth-century American women: the problem with past role models, ways to construct new ones.