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Finding Fran: History and Memory in the Lives of Two Women
Lois Banner
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Description for Finding Fran: History and Memory in the Lives of Two Women
Hardback. Exploring the intersections of biography and autobiography, East and West, faith and reason, Finding Fran tells the story of two high school friends who took radically different paths: Lois Banner became an academic feminist, while Fran Huneke converted to Islam, joining the mystical Sufi Order and moving to Egypt. Num Pages: 272 pages, 25 photos. BIC Classification: BG; HRH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
On a cool summer evening in the desert between Taos and Santa Fe, two women lean on pillows, sip coffee, and discuss their past. One is a professor of history and gender studies and has been a feminist and an agnostic throughout most of her adult life. The other is a devout Muslim of the mystical Sufi order. What brings two such different women together? Attending high school in 1950s suburban Los Angeles, Lois Banner and Fran Huneke had been best friends, with their minds on books and boys. But while Banner became an academic feminist, Fran converted to Islam ... Read more
On a cool summer evening in the desert between Taos and Santa Fe, two women lean on pillows, sip coffee, and discuss their past. One is a professor of history and gender studies and has been a feminist and an agnostic throughout most of her adult life. The other is a devout Muslim of the mystical Sufi order. What brings two such different women together? Attending high school in 1950s suburban Los Angeles, Lois Banner and Fran Huneke had been best friends, with their minds on books and boys. But while Banner became an academic feminist, Fran converted to Islam ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231112161
SKU
V9780231112161
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Ref
99-1
About Lois Banner
Lois W. Banner is a professor of history and gender studies at the University of Southern California. She is the author of several books, including In Full Flower: Aging Women, Power, and Sexuality; American Beauty; and Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Woman's Rights.
Reviews for Finding Fran: History and Memory in the Lives of Two Women
Candid and serious, Finding Fran is suffused with intelligence and at war with stereotypes... A deeply respectful account of very different ways of being a strong woman. Women's Review of Books Banner's book is a model for discourse and dialogue between often hostile perspectives.
Kathy Bullock Association for Middle East Women's Studies Banner's ability to see personal choices as ... Read more
Kathy Bullock Association for Middle East Women's Studies Banner's ability to see personal choices as ... Read more