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In this modern classic, Carolyn G. Heilbrun builds an eloquent argument demonstrating that writers conform all too often to society's expectations of what women should be like at the expense of the truth of the female experience. Drawing on the careers of celebrated authors including Virginia Woolf, George Sand, and Dorothy Sayers, Heilbrun illustrates the struggle these writers undertook in both work and life to break away from traditional "male" scripts for women's roles.
With great eloquence, this author shows how throughout the centuries, those who write about woman's lives--biographers and autobiographers--have suppressed the truth of the female experience, in order to make the written life conform to society's expectations of what that life should be.
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David Lagacé
reviewed Writing a Woman's Life on March 14, 2012
Writing a Woman's Life
I bought a copy of this book in my early 20s, recently graduated from college, friends heading off to law school, medical school--all kinds of professional opportunities. I was taking a women's studies class at North Seattle Community college.
But I didn't read it until now.
Now I'm raising a teenage daughter who would probably trade her intelligence to fit into our culture's new narrow definition of looking "hot." You know, size 2 butt with size D boobs.
The hope and promise in Writing A Woman's Life has dissipated, it seems, as grown woman try to mimic teenagers. And teenagers value sex appeal above anything else. Heck, even Madonna who seemed to be taking charge of her womanhood in the 80s now struts around in videos with cheerleaders and football players, showing off her skinny body. Trying so hard to hang onto youth is more sad than sexy at 50.
But our culture doesn't give us much else. Even my friends with medical degrees, law degrees, and other important jobs obsesses about body image. (And it's pretty boring to talk about, really.)
Heilbrun's optimism for the future of women just hasn't played out. I kind of wish I'd read this book back in my 20s!
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