Women's Lives: The View from the Threshold (Alexander Lectures)
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (937 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0802082289 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 120 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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'Heilbrun devotes a good deal of space in these lectures to the mother-daughter relationship - "the least explored and understood among all human relationships," she has called it - and she writes movingly of the guilt and pain suffered by women who, taking advantage of choices unavailable to their mothers, must necessarily leave them behind.' (Kathleen Byrne The Globe and Mail)
It is no coincidence that Eve delivers this line. In another view, the view compellingly expressed by Carolyn Heilbrun, women must abandon the appropriate and seek out the liminel. Surprising explorations of the positions which launch women into uncertain ground extend these lectures outside the academic purview.Each year the Alexander lectureship invites a distinguished scholar to the University of Toronto to give a course of public lectures on the subject of English Literature. While humanity in every era and stage in history has been marked by a strong sense of itself as being in a state of transition, women have always had a particularly close relationship to changeable terrain. But Heilbrun, within this distinguished genealogy, reworks the very notion of the line, creating a new pattern of writing and approaching literary culture, just as the women whose lives she examine
Saundra L. Rowzee said Woman: Betwixt and Between. This book represents Heilbrun's effort to show how the feminism begun in the sixties and developed throughout her life has affected the literature she read and taught. She decided to arrive at this through a study of the biographies of four women, taken from before and after feminism, but while the study yielded obvious differences, there was nothing astonishing or unexpected. So, she took another look. Utilizing the concept of "liminality," a condition
Heilbrun is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities Emerita at Columbia University.. Carolyn G