Women's Lives: The View from the Threshold

Carolyn Heilbrun

Published by University of Toronto Press 1999

Women's Lives

The View from the Threshold

Carolyn Heilbrun

In the series Alexander Lectures

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442657557

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About this book

Heilbrun looks at the biographies and memoirs of great women and reveals the ways in which feminism has changed our perceptions of their lives.

Electronic Format Disclaimer: Excerpt from the poem "Where Did I Leave Off" by Virginia Hamilton Adair on pages 65-66 removed at the request of the rights holder

Author / Editor information

Heilbrun Carolyn :

Carolyn G. Heilbrun is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities Emerita at Columbia University.

Reviews

Kathleen Byrne:

'Heilbrun devotes a good deal of space in these lectures to the mother-daughter relationship - "the least explored and understood among all human relationships," she has called it - and she writes movingly of the guilt and pain suffered by women who, taking advantage of choices unavailable to their mothers, must necessarily leave them behind.'

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. Deliriously Hideous, A Powerful Beauty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Evolution of the Female Memoir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
3. Embracing the Paradox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
4. The Rewards of Liminality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 120

eBook

Published: December 15, 1999
ISBN: 9781442657557