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Biting the Moon: A Memoir of Feminism and Motherhood (Writing American Women)
Joanne Frye
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Description for Biting the Moon: A Memoir of Feminism and Motherhood (Writing American Women)
Hardcover. Joanne Frye reflects on her experience as a literary scholar and single mother, seeing her life as the convergence of "three strands of contemporary culture; feminism, literature and changing ideas of motherhood." Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: BM; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 562.
A second-year doctoral student from a Midwestern family, Frye is twenty-three when she marries a German professor ten years her senior. Previously sheltered, Frye seeks new vistas but instead finds herself confined by the demands of her life: wife to a volatile and domineering husband, mother of two young daughters, and aspiring academic. With her dissertation completed, she finally realizes that the only way to wrest her identity and freedom from her husband’s grip is by leaving him; she boards a bus with her two young children to embark on a new life. In Biting the Moon, Frye powerfully recounts ... Read more
A second-year doctoral student from a Midwestern family, Frye is twenty-three when she marries a German professor ten years her senior. Previously sheltered, Frye seeks new vistas but instead finds herself confined by the demands of her life: wife to a volatile and domineering husband, mother of two young daughters, and aspiring academic. With her dissertation completed, she finally realizes that the only way to wrest her identity and freedom from her husband’s grip is by leaving him; she boards a bus with her two young children to embark on a new life. In Biting the Moon, Frye powerfully recounts ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Writing American Women
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815609698
SKU
V9780815609698
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About Joanne Frye
Joanne Frye is professor emerita of English and women's studies at the College of Wooster in Ohio. She is the author of Living Stories, Telling Lives: Women and the Novel in Contemporary Experience and Tillie Olsen: A Study of the Short Fiction.
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