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"A series of explorations of the biographies and literary achievements of twelve modern women writers, Passionate Minds tells the stories of women who "rewrote" the world that they inherited, shaping beliefs about vital issues ranging from religion to sex to race to politics.".
"Claudia Roth Pierpont organizes these probing portraits into three sections. Broadly speaking, the first deals with issues of sexual freedom, in essays on Olive Schreiner, Gertrude Stein, Anais Nin, and - surprisingly, for those who do not know her as a writer - Mae West. The second section, which examines Margaret Mitchell, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty, deals with issues of race and the American South during a period of wrenching change and retrenchment.
The third focuses on politics, particularly on the experience and historical interpretation of Soviet Communism and Nazi Germany: the Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva, Ayn Rand, Doris Lessing, and, in a dual essay that is also a moving account of an enduring friendship, Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy.
Throughout, Pierpont anatomizes both the lives and the art of her subjects and suggests their roles in the progress - if it has been progress - that has taken place in the attitudes of women over the course of the century."--BOOK JACKET.
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History and criticism, Women and literature, English literature, American literature, American Authors, English Authors, Women authors, American Women authors, English Women authors, Biography, History, Écrivaines anglaises, Écrivaines américaines, Écrits de femmes anglais, Biographies, Écrits de femmes américains, Écrivains anglais, Littérature américaine, Histoire, Écrivains américains, Histoire et critique, Femmes et littérature, Littérature anglaise, Femmes et litterature, Ecrits de femmes anglais, Ecrivaines americaines, Ecrivains americains, Ecrivains anglais, Ecrivaines anglaises, Ecrits de femmes americains, Litterature americaine, Litterature anglaise, English literature, women authors, Women, literary collections, New York Times reviewedPlaces
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Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World
February 13, 2001, Vintage
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Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World
February 2001, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
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Passionate minds: women rewriting the world
2000, Knopf
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