Bearing life : women's writings on childlessness / edited by Rochelle Ratner
- Bib ID:
- 356097
- Format:
- Book
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2000
- vii, 248 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 155861236X (alkaline paper)
- 1558612750 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"A wall of silence surrounds the experience of women who are childless, whether by choice or by circumstance. Bearing Life is the first anthology to marshal the power of literature to break this silence. Here, more than 40 contemporary writers reflect candidly and movingly on what it means to live as women without children. These stories, poems, and personal essays speak directly from -- and to -- the conflicting, often painful, and sometimes liberating emotions of childless women. The selections move through the ambivalence and denial childless women confront within themselves, to the misunderstanding and hostility they confront in the outside world, toward a space where an acceptance and even celebration of childlessness can begin to take place. Bearing Life includes work by Julia Alvarez, Margaret Atwood, Rita Mae Brown, Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Diane diPrima, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Janice Eidus, Daniela Gioseffi, Amy Hempel, Linda Hogan, bell hooks, Hettie Jones, Irena Klepfisz, Joy Kogawa, Valerie Miner, Kathleen Norris, Naomi Shihab Nye, Joyce Carol Oates, Grace Paley, Molly Peacock, Marge Piercy, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Evelyn C. Rosser, Jane Rule, May Sarton, Sandra Scofield, Amy Tan, Luci Tapahonso, and many others." -- BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Part I. Facing Choice: Evelyn C. Rosser; Denise Duhamel; Irena Klepfisz; Mary Mackey; Rita Mae Brown; Sandra Cisneros; Marge Piercy; Elissa Raffa; Jodi Sh. Doff; Hettie Jones; Amy Tan; Suzanne Ostro; Amy Hempel; Deborah Boe; Vicki Lindner; Joy Williams; Lynda Schor; Patricia Foster
- Part II. Knowing Loss: Diane Di Prima; Paulette Bates Alden; Wendy Rose; Pamela Walker; Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni; Tory Dent; Becky Birtha; Joyce Carol Oates; Sandra Scofield; Kit Reed; Rochelle Ratner; Janice Eidus; Daniela Gioseffi; Judee Norton; Minnie Bruce Pratt; Grace Paley; Luci Tapahonso; Linda Hoga; Naomi Shihab Nye
- Part III. Bearing Life: Kathleen Norris; Rebecca McClanahan; Valerie Miner; Joy Kogawa; Ana Castillo; Margaret Atwood; Nikki Dillon; Shylah Boyd; Donna Brook; Jane Rule; Elizabeth Marraffino-Rees; Julia Alvarez; Bell Hooks; May Sarton; Molly Peacock.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-244).
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Ratner, Rochelle
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2000
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