Miller My Brilliant Friends

Our Lives in Feminism
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54894-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Reihe: Gender and Culture Series

My Brilliant Friends is an innovative group biography of three friendships forged in second-wave feminism. Poignant and politically charged, the book is a captivating personal account of the complexities of women’s bonds.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Nancy K.

Miller, Nancy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prelude: The Art of Losing
1. Carolyn Heilbrun
2. Naomi Schor
3. Diane Middlebrook
Endpieces
Elegy: Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy
Dialogue in a Garden: Patricia Yaeger
Notes on Loss
Notes
Acknowledgments

Über Autor(innen)

Miller Nancy:
Nancy Miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY and co-editor of the Gender and Culture series. Her books include the landmark The Poetics of Gender (ed., Columbia UP, 1987), Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writing (Columbia University Press, 1989), Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts (Routledge, 1991), Bequests and Betrayal: Memoirs of a Parent’s Death (Oxford UP, 1996), But Enough About Me:Why We Read Other People’s Lives (Columbia UP, 2002), Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory (co-editor, Columbia UP, 2011), and others.Nancy K. Miller teaches life writing and cultural criticism at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts (1991) and But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People’s Lives (Columbia, 2002), as well as the memoir Breathless: An American Girl in Paris (2013).