the women who made an art of having an opinion
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Dean, Michelle
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2019
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, literatuurwetenschap, journalisten, recensies, witte vrouwen, Engels, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- The author tells the story of ten women writers and cultural critics in a male dominated cultural establishment in twentieth-century New York. Mixing biography, literary criticism, and cultural history, she writes about the writers and connectons between them: Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler and Janet Malcolm. Includes also an interview with the author by Roxane Gay and the essay 'The problem with 'speaking for women': on sisterhood and the abstractions of contemporary feminism' by the author. First published as hardcover editon in 2018.