MOMENTAN AUSVERKAUFT
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393343219
ISBN-139780393343212
eBay Product ID (ePID)164674461
Product Key Features
Book TitleLetter to the World : Seven Women Who Shaped the American Century
Number of Pages370 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistorical
Publication Year1998
GenreBiography & Autobiography
AuthorSusan Ware
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsA wonderful evocation of a period in which, for one brief moment, the sky was the limit for female achievement.
Dewey Decimal920.72/0973
SynopsisIn wanting to think through modern women's history, Susan Ware found herself drawn to seven larger-than-life women who influenced not only their professions--politics, journalism, anthropology, acting, sports, dance, and music--but also the way women saw themselves and their options in life. Ware recovers the people behind the legends of Eleanor Roosevelt, Dorothy Thompson, Margaret Mead, Katharine Hepburn, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Martha Graham, and Marian Anderson in compelling life stories. She looks at how they created their persona, how they kept themselves in the public eye, and how they did so for so long. She also speaks to how these women balanced their personal lives--choosing lovers and mates and deciding whether to have children. In the choices they made and the success of those choices are lessons relevant to contemporary working women. As part of living exceptional and unconventional lives, they gave other women the ability to desire beyond the limits imposed on women and allowed them to dream and strive for lives of independence and fulfillment., In the tradition of Composing a Life and Writing a Woman's Life, a look at the intimate and public lives of seven strong and vibrant women who had a lasting impact on American popular culture and on women's lives.
