Edition: First edition.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780345362568ISBN:034536256X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 160 p. Ballantine Reader's Circle. Audience: General/trade. Good Condition. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780345362568ISBN:034536256X
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 160 p. Ballantine Reader's Circle (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780393026016ISBN:0393026019
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. Ex-library. Nice hard cover, lightly read, acetate over dust jacket, library stamps & stickers, first bank page cut out, stk #2560e9. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 144 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Fine. Trade Paperback. Ballantine Books, 1989. Fine Book. Aside from 10 pages with PEN UNDERLING and NOTES, overall a clean and tight, lightly read copy. Media mail packed in protective bubble lined shipping bags, Priority in a Flat Rate Envelope. Shipped quickly. Prompt response to questions. read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Soft-cover. Spine NOT creased. NO stains, tears, writing. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 160 p. Ballantine Reader's Circle. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780345362568ISBN:034536256X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. PB, A VERY GOOD, CLEAN USED COPY, NO MARKS ON TEXT, SMOKE FREE. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 160 p. Ballantine Reader's Circle. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780345362568ISBN:034536256X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Clean unmarked pages are lightly tanning at edges. Crisp cover. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 160 p. Ballantine Reader's Circle. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780345362568ISBN:034536256X
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 160 p. Ballantine Reader's Circle. Audience: General/trade. Has a few check marks and brackets. Also has an inscription. read more
"I adored this book. It might very well knock off one of the books currently on my favorites list. I had to read it with a notepad handy to take notes on all the biographies, novels, and poetry books she mentioned that I hadn't heard that will now be trickling onto my too read list.
Plus, I love the voice of the author. When a book can be extremely academic and yet highly entertaining that's a rare feat in my eyes.
Simply stated, the book is about women's biographies and how they've been historically framed in terms of patriarchal narratives. Great women authors who failed to marry became great authors as a consolation prize to comfort themselves about their failure as women. Women authors who married were either good women in that they were able to run households and be authors at the same time or they were bad women in that they neglected the duties that were assigned to their sex.
In 'Writing a Woman's Life' Heilbrum is trying to construct a new narrative. She looks at several prominent women's biographies and asks what was left out and what other interpretation based on letters the woman had written and other primary sources might the biographer have come to were he (and sometimes she) to have stepped outside the traditional frame of the woman's role to interpret the author's life on its own terms for its own merits.
"Both writer's how-to and autobiography, this book shared advice about surviving a life in academia that I have seen proven true time and time again. A gift from Dr Heilbrun to the rest of us. Any woman entering the maze should definitely read this book."
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