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Womens Lives Book

This amazingly rich lode of memoirs, letters, and diaries jumbles together a great roster of 20th-century women, including Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Bernadette Devlin, Emily Mashinini, Sara Suleri, and Santha Rama Rau. Le Ly Hayslip, the sixth child in a Vietnamese peasant family, describes a life pinched between the violence of Viet Cong revolutionaries and South Vietnamese republicans. Poet and lesbian feminist Audre Lorde writes about being introduced to the wonders of reading as a stubborn, bright, legally blind youngster. "I lay spreadeagled on the floor of the Children's Room like a furious brown toad, screaming bloody murder and embarrassing my mother to death," she recalls. Jill Ker Conway tells of her father's depression and death when a drought crushed their sheep farm in the Australian outback. The excerpts drop us smack into the middle of each life; inventive cross-referencing encourages the reader to fly back and forth, sampling other writings on "filial exasperation," for example, or child's-eye views of romance and war. --Francesca ColtreraRead More

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  • Product Description

    This anthology includes 61 selections from the 20th-century literature of women's lives: autobiographies, journals, and memoirs. The women whose life stories are collected here range from Maya Angelou and Anne Frank to Onnie Lee Logan, an Alabama midwife, and Emma Mashinini, a South African labor organizer.

  • 0393312909
  • 9780393312904
  • Rose
  • 28 February 1996
  • WW Norton & Co
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 832
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