Reinventing Womanhood - Hardcover

Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393012107 ISBN 13: 9780393012101

Publisher: WW Norton & Co, 1979

Synopsis

Carolyn Heilbrun's important investigation into issues of identity for twentieth-century American women: the problem with past role models, ways to construct new ones.

"Men have monopolized human experience, leaving women unable to imagine themselves as both ambitious and female. If I imagine myself (woman has always asked) whole, active, a self, will I not cease, in some profound way, to be a woman? The answer must be: imagine, and the old idea of womanhood be damned. . . . Let us imagine ourselves as selves, as at once striving and female. Womanhood can be what we say it is, not what they have always told us it was."

About this title

About the Author:

Carolyn G. Heilbrun (1926–2003) was a professor of English at Columbia University. A force in literary and feminist theory, she also wrote mysteries under the pen name Amanda Cross.

Review:

Occasionally a book comes along that forces one to re-examine a familiar issue from a fresh perspective. . . . Carolyn Heilbrun's Reinventing Womanhood is that rare book. . . . Passionate and trenchant in its observations and recommendations, it is essential reading for anyone interested not only in the future of womanhood but in the stimulating possibilities for liberation of both sexes. "

About this edition

• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0393012107
• ISBN 13: 9780393012101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244