Reinventing Womanhood

Men have monopolized human experience, leaving women unable to imagine themselves as both ambitious and female. If I imagine myself (woman has always asked) whole, active, a self, will I not cease, in some profound way, to be a woman? The answer must be: imagine, and the old idea of womanhood be damned. . . . Let us imagine ourselves as selves, as at once striving and female. Womanhood can be what we say it is, not what they have always told us it was.


Author: Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/01/1993
Pages: 246
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.46w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9780393310764

About the Author
Heilbrun, Carolyn G.: - Carolyn G. Heilbrun (1926-2003) was a professor of English at Columbia University. A force in literary and feminist theory, she also wrote mysteries under the pen name Amanda Cross.