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A life in motion / Florence Howe.
Van Pelt Library HQ1413.H678 A3 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howe, Florence.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Howe, Florence.
- Feminists--United States--Biography.
- Feminists.
- United States.
- Teachers--United States--Biography.
- Teachers.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 587 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2011.
- Summary:
- Women's movement organizer and Feminist Press co-founder Florence Howe recounts her own history, from her girlhood in 1930s Brooklyn, to the founding of the Feminist Press in 1970, to her necessary reflection upon herself in order to write her own memoir in 2008. She considers the cultural expectations of women and thus her own expectations of herself as a young woman in post-war America; her experience as a white northerner teaching young Black students at a Freedom School in Mississippi in the summer of 1964; four very different marriages, their personal and sometimes political repercussions; the many young people whom she adopted, both literally and figuratively; and her ongoing work as an activist, whether from the perspective of gender, race or class. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781558616974
- 1558616977
- OCLC:
- 669754937
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