Toward a recognition of androgyny (Harper Colophon books)

Literature & Fiction

Heilbrun, Carolyn

History & Criticism

Harper & Row,1974, c1973

Carolyn G. Heilbrun's groundbreaking essay "The Character of Hamlet's Mother" was published in 1957 at a time when few critics thought seriously about women's issues in literature. In the years since, Heilbrun has emerged as a feminist leader through her commitment to women's writing and feminist literary critique. Now in a new paperback edition with a new preface by the author, this collection explores feminism in literary studies during the last three decades. By questioning the gender arrangements of society, Heilbrun has helped to transform them. Taken together, these graceful essays demonstrate the consistency and clarity of Heilbrun's vision and her deep respect for the lives of women who write.

Hamlet's Mother and Other Women

Dramas & Plays

Columbia University Press

Reinventing Womanhood

Softcover, 1979 W.W. Norton &amp; Co., 6th printing. 244pages. "Reinventing Womanhood ranks with de Beauvoir's The Second Sex as a landmark work".--Claudia Dreifus. Book is like new other than tiny dog ears on front cover and notes on inside back cover. 1st ed., 6th printing.Carolyn G. Heilbrun.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

W. W. Norton & Company; Incorporated

For a quarter-century, until her death in 1938, Lady Ottoline Morrell not only was one of the greatest literary hostesses in England, but was also a skilled and devoted amateur photographer. Selected key extracts from many diaries, letters, poems, and other writings. Associated with the Bloomsbury group, her subjects include Virginia Woolf, of course, as well as Henry James Lytton Strachey, Aldous Huxley, Katherine Mansfield, D. H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, Thomas Hardy, E. M. Foster,W.B.Yeats, T.S.Eliot, Ian Fleming, and many others. To supplement the pictures, the editor Carolyn Heilbrun has selected key extracts from many diaries, letters, poems, and other writings in which Lady Ottoline's guests talked about themselves and each other -- pointedly, wittily, and frankly, as might be expected from so literate a group. Lord David Cecil, the historian (and a visitor at Garsington himself in the great days), contributes a fond introduction. Lady Ottoline's Album is a delight for anyone touched by an interest in Bloomsbury or the wider scene of British cultural life between the wars, a treasure of literary nostalgia, an era caught in movement and preserved.

Lady Ottoline's album: Snapshots and portraits of her famous contemporaries (and of herself), photographed for the most part by Lady Ottoline Morrell ... of her daughter, Julian Vinogradoff

KNOPF

Eve has been supposed to have remarked to Adam as they left the garden, my dear, we are in a state of transition, and of course they were. It is no coincidence that Eve delivers this line. 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. In their quest for self knowledge, boundaries, and names, women have found themselves between varying cultural demands. In one view, perhaps the dominant one, the only way to gain positive status is to fit appropriately into approved categories: appropriately beautiful, appropriately young, appropriately thin, appropriately successful. In another view, the view compellingly expressed by Carolyn Heilbrun, women must abandon the appropriate and seek out the liminel. The word limen means threshold. To be in a state of liminality is to be poised upon uncertain ground, on the brink of leaving one condition or country or self to enter upon another. When recognized, liminality offers women freedom to be or become themselves.
In Women's Lives: The View from the Threshold Carolyn Heilbrun looks at the biographies and memoirs of women who have wrestled with their own betwixt and betweenness (in the process altering the face of literature, and the world): George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Gloria Steinem. She reveals the ways in which feminism has changed our perceptions of these lives. 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. These four lectures from the 1997 series put Carolyn Heilbrun in a line of distinguished scholarly work with such previous lecturers as Walter Ong, Robertson Davies, and Northrop Frye. 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 examines have done. The reader will come out of this experience moved, refreshed, and inspired to create rather than take a position.

Women's Lives: The View from the Threshold (Alexander Lectures)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

University of Toronto Press

Always a contradictory figure, Gloria Steinem has been both hailed and vilified as the "acceptable" face of feminism. Not until her political engagement found active voice through the "New York" magazine and her own venture, the ground-breaking and influential "MS", did the media coverage about "the world's most beautiful byline" begin to peter out. Steinem's vigorous work throughout the sixties in support of civil rights, abortion and the anti-Vietnam movement, and her subsequent embracing of the feminist cause, had at last put her beauty in perspective. This work is a survey of the forces that shaped this remarkable figure. Covering Steinem's difficult childhood in Toledo, her years at Smith College and her watershed sojourn in India, the author offers an insight into Steinem's developing consciousness.

The Education of a Woman: The Life and Times of Gloria Steinem

Community & Culture

Time Warner Books Uk

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