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Carolyn G. Heilbrun: Feminist in a Tenured Position (Feminist Issues: Practice, Politics, Theory)
Susan Kress
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Description for Carolyn G. Heilbrun: Feminist in a Tenured Position (Feminist Issues: Practice, Politics, Theory)
Paperback. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; BGLA; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Carolyn G. Heilbrun is renowned as a provocative feminist critic of the culture and (as Amanda Cross) a writer of witty detective novels. In Carolyn G. Heilbrun: Feminist in a Tenured Position, Susan Kress provides a compelling intellectual biography, tracing the evolution of Heilbrun’s thought and career in the context of the major debates and transformations of the contemporary women’s movement. Kress tells the story of a woman determined to expand the boundaries of female selfhood, weighs the risks of the life Heilbrun staked out for herself, and evaluates her pioneering contributions to the ongoing feminist conversation.
Drawing on ... Read more
Carolyn G. Heilbrun is renowned as a provocative feminist critic of the culture and (as Amanda Cross) a writer of witty detective novels. In Carolyn G. Heilbrun: Feminist in a Tenured Position, Susan Kress provides a compelling intellectual biography, tracing the evolution of Heilbrun’s thought and career in the context of the major debates and transformations of the contemporary women’s movement. Kress tells the story of a woman determined to expand the boundaries of female selfhood, weighs the risks of the life Heilbrun staked out for herself, and evaluates her pioneering contributions to the ongoing feminist conversation.
Drawing on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813925363
SKU
V9780813925363
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About Susan Kress
Susan Kress is Professor of English at Skidmore College and the author of numerous essays on pedagogy and women writers.
Reviews for Carolyn G. Heilbrun: Feminist in a Tenured Position (Feminist Issues: Practice, Politics, Theory)
A fascinating biography, Carolyn G. Heilbrun: Feminist in a Tenured Position now includes a new epilogue that probes the painful mystery of Heilbrun's 2003 suicide. In her moving final chapter, Kress, whose sense of personal loss is palpable through these pages, balances a life story of extraordinary accomplishment with the troubling ending Heilbrun chose to give it. [This book] is ... Read more