Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience

by Bettina Aptheker

Tapestries of Life proposes a way of putting women at the center of our thinking by structuring it out of the dailiness of women's lives. The focus is on women of diverse races, classes, ages, and geographic regions in the United States. Aptheker draws upon the works of women writers, poets, artists, dramatists, dancers, musicians, and academics as well as the words of women factory workers, domestics, and agricultural laborers. She explores how to promote balance in a system that institutionalizes class, race, and gender inequities at every level.

Genres: Feminism, Gender

312 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[Caity · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a really thought provoking book. At the point I read it the book was about thirty years old so I read it more for a historiography of the feminist movement at the time it was written. I appreciated how diverse the author's citations were as well as the beauty of the writing and art used to make her points. All around an interesting read.