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Between Women: Biographers, Novelists, Critics, Teachers, and Artists Write About Their Work on Women
When first published in 1984, Between Women broke ground in women's exploration of their creative works, and those of the women preceeding them. As a document of the complex relationships between writers, teachers and artists and the women who have moved, shaped and inspired them, this collection is still unmatched.
Routledge is proud to publish the updated edition of Between Women, with a foreword for this edition by Carolyn Heilbrun. The book brings together the stories of biographers, novelists, scholars and artists as they have written about their journeys (some literal, some figurative) they have made to their subjects. The essays draw forth honest admissions of how they chose the women, the biases and hopes they brought with them, and what insights they gained for themselves.
Contributors to this volume are: Carol Ascher, Myrtha Chabrán, Bell Chevigny, Michelle Cliff, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Louise DeSalve, Yi-Tsi Me Feuerwerker, Leah Glasser,Gloria (Akasha) Hull, Ann Jackowitz, Lynda Koolish, Jane Lazarre, Jane Marcus, Elizabeth Minnich, Sara Ruddick, Alix Kates Shulman, Janet Sternburg, Erlene Stetson, May Stevens, Meredith Tax, Boony Vaught, Alice Walker, Martha Wheelock, J. J. Wilson and Elizabeth Wood. Among the women discussed in the book are: Zora Neale Hurston, Simone Weil, May Sarton, Virginia Woolf, Rosa Luxemburg, Eleanor Roosevelt, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Hannah Arendt, and Ding Ling.
Between Women presents the reader with a legacy from women scholars and artists, and will interest those engaged in women's studies, literary criticism and history, political history, as well as general readers.
469 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1984
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About the author
Carol Ascher
27 books5 followersI was born in Cleveland three weeks after my parents arrived as refugees from the Nazi regimes of Central Europe. Our home was bilingual, with German the language of nostalgia, frightening memories, as well as intimacy.
I grew up in Topeka, Kansas, straddling two very different worlds: the Midwestern Christian world of my public school and neighborhood, and the community of Jewish refugees who, like my father, had been hired as psychoanalysts by the Menninger Foundation, one of the early psychoanalytic clinics in America.
My novel, The Flood, describes a ten-year-old whose biographical information is similar to mine, as she comes to understand the nature of prejudice. The novel takes place in Topeka in 1951, the year the Kansas River overflew, turning hundreds into refugees, and Reverend Oliver Brown sued the Topeka Board of Education, because his daughter had to travel across town to attend a segregated school.
I attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, for two years, and completed my BA at Barnard College. After taking off a few years to experience the life of a writer while taking a variety of jobs in New York City, I returned to Columbia, where I earned a doctorate in Anthropology and Education. I then spent several decades studying urban public schools, with most of my research directed at understanding issues of inequality and prejudice as they occur in public schools.
In the 1970s, sexual, reproductive and artistic issues in the Second Wave of feminism became the focus of my personal and public life. This led to two books, Simone deBeauvoir, a Life of Freedom, and a collection I edited with Sara Ruddick and Louise deSalvo, Between Women: Biographers, Novelists, Critics, Teachers and Artists Write about their Work on Women.
My refugee background has been a rich source on which I draw over and over in my writing. My memoir, Afterimages, focuses on how my parents' struggles to leave their homelands and make new lives for themselves in America, and describes my own journeys back to Germany and Austria to discover more about their pasts. This complicated background is also the xx of several personal essays, including The Dress, My Father's Violin, and, most recently, To Be Human in a Jewish Way, an essay about my aunt's experiences in the Jewish schools initiated by Martin Buber during the early years of the Nazi regime in Germany.
I grew up in Topeka, Kansas, straddling two very different worlds: the Midwestern Christian world of my public school and neighborhood, and the community of Jewish refugees who, like my father, had been hired as psychoanalysts by the Menninger Foundation, one of the early psychoanalytic clinics in America.
My novel, The Flood, describes a ten-year-old whose biographical information is similar to mine, as she comes to understand the nature of prejudice. The novel takes place in Topeka in 1951, the year the Kansas River overflew, turning hundreds into refugees, and Reverend Oliver Brown sued the Topeka Board of Education, because his daughter had to travel across town to attend a segregated school.
I attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, for two years, and completed my BA at Barnard College. After taking off a few years to experience the life of a writer while taking a variety of jobs in New York City, I returned to Columbia, where I earned a doctorate in Anthropology and Education. I then spent several decades studying urban public schools, with most of my research directed at understanding issues of inequality and prejudice as they occur in public schools.
In the 1970s, sexual, reproductive and artistic issues in the Second Wave of feminism became the focus of my personal and public life. This led to two books, Simone deBeauvoir, a Life of Freedom, and a collection I edited with Sara Ruddick and Louise deSalvo, Between Women: Biographers, Novelists, Critics, Teachers and Artists Write about their Work on Women.
My refugee background has been a rich source on which I draw over and over in my writing. My memoir, Afterimages, focuses on how my parents' struggles to leave their homelands and make new lives for themselves in America, and describes my own journeys back to Germany and Austria to discover more about their pasts. This complicated background is also the xx of several personal essays, including The Dress, My Father's Violin, and, most recently, To Be Human in a Jewish Way, an essay about my aunt's experiences in the Jewish schools initiated by Martin Buber during the early years of the Nazi regime in Germany.
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