About this title: This reissue of Bateson's treatise on the improvisational lives of five extraordinary women uses their personal stories to delve into the creative potential of the complex lives of today, where ambitions are constantly refocused on new goals and possibilities.
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Description: Good. Pages unmarked, no creases on spine, some wear on corners, a few marks on page edges. Ships within 24 hours, Satisfaction Guaranteed. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Plume Books
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780452265059ISBN:0452265053
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, very slight shelf wear to cover, bend on bottom corner of front cover, slight aging. 241 p.; 0.57" x 7.94" x 5.27". read more
Description: Good. 0452265053 Good condition soft cover book, some creases to spine, some edge/corner rubs, may have corner crease, small edge tear or spine slant, a good book for reading. Shop & Save With US. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Plume, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780452265059ISBN:0452265053
Description: Very Good. 0452265053 Previously read trade paperback book in very good condition, some very minor shelf wear, no rips or tears. 03333340 _ read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Plume
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780452265059ISBN:0452265053
Description: Very-Good+ 8vo. {009662} Composing a Life by Mary Catherine Bateson. ISBN 0452265053. Published by Plume in 1990. TRADE PAPERBACK 8vo Biography 241pp. {Book Condition} VERY-GOOD+ {Book Condition Details} Cover: edge wear, minor soiling, light creasing on Spine, light creasing, rubbing, End Papers: owner inscription(s) on front free endpaper. {Keywords} WOMEN STUDIES SOCIAL SCIENCE. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Plume Books
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780452265059ISBN:0452265053
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. softcover; solid binding; no marking or highlighting within text; minor highlighting; gift stamp on cover page; VB42. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
"What I learned from this book... Don't tackle a book on women's emerging roles in a "post" feminist society while still smarting from being fired as dean of a prestigious university.
Aside from that, it's interesting to read the feminist perspective from 1989 -- the year I graduated from college, oblivious to the tissue layers of resistance that constituted the glass ceiling in my own career path. I was equally unaware of the carbon-threads of sexism that had shaped propelled my college studies toward the liberal arts and not architecture or engineering.
Two decades in the workforce has made all of these tethers abundantly clear.
Bateson discusses the experiences in her life and in those of four of her friends, how they were bound or unbound by the expectations around them.
I found the stories of her acquaintances more compelling and intriguing. What was it like to be a female high-tech exec in the 80s? What was it like to be the first female, African-American president of Spelman? These are the stories of women's lives in the post-feminist world who really mattered, and who really put in motion what will untether the potential of my daughters.
It's an indulgent, naval-gazer of a book, with an author wrestling with her anger of her firing. But there are nuggets in here that tell the story of how the world is changing and will continue to change for women everywhere."
"This was a lovely book. I recommend it to every woman I know. I'm glad I read it now, and I hope to read it again ten years from now and take different things away."
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