Biting the moon : a memoir of feminism and motherhood / Joanne S. Frye.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frye, Joanne S., 1944-

Series:

Writing American women.

Writing American women

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working mothers.

Motherhood.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A second-year doctoral student from a Midwestern family, Frye is twenty-three when she marries a German professor ten years her senior. Previously sheltered, Frye seeks new vistas but instead finds herself confined by the demands of her life: wife to a volatile and domineering husband, mother of two young daughters, and aspiring academic. With her dissertation completed, she finally realizes that the only way to wrest her identity and freedom from her husband's grip is by leaving him; she boards a bus with her two young children to embark on a new life. In Biting the Moon, Frye powerfully recounts her struggle for independence and a successful career while remaining devoted to her daughters. Despite the many promises of the women's movement-liberation from domestic work and the ability to influence social policy-she wrestles with the complex, often ambivalent, relationship between feminism and motherhood. Interwoven with literary references from Charlotte Brontë to Virginia Woolf to Tillie Olsen, Biting the Moon invites the reader along on Frye's quest for self-expression and a life beyond the shadows of others. This deeply felt, courageous portrait of a woman's life will be intimately familiar to an older generation of mothers and an inspiration to a younger generation.

Contents:

pt. 1. Family with fissures : 1968-1976

pt. 2. A new life : 1976-1989.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780815651727

0815651724

OCLC:

808350116