Reinventing WomanhoodW. W. Norton & Company, 1979 - 244 páginas "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." |
Índice
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Personal and Prefatory | 15 |
Woman as Outsider | 37 |
Female Childhood | 93 |
History and Literature | 125 |
Marriage and Family | 171 |
The Claims of Woman | 199 |
Términos y frases comunes
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