Minority writers who write about being minorities generally aren’t treated very well in America: too often they are offered up in high school and college courses merely as ritual sacrifices to the gods of multiculturalism. Yet the reason to read James Baldwin, and any good writer regardless of color or creed, is that he can … More Read It Slant (On Baldwin)
As we know, I am fascinated with Working It Out. I need to put this volume aside, though, so as to pore over other things. I also think I will see some things in it more clearly still if I come back to it later, yet I do not want to leave it unfinished on … More Miriam Schapiro, Celia Gilbert
I am becoming myself again at long last; I can feel my life flowing back to me. On the radio they are discussing managing your (musical) career “as though it were a work of art itself” and I like the concept. * I am still reading Working It Out which is a really epoch making … More Adrienne Rich
Catharine R. Stimpson (Working It Out 71-76) was raised to work, not to be supported as we were a generation later – “after the war,” as it was said.Her picture of herself as as a worker “was that of an angel: wings and body of fire; shooting toward heaven, at once desperate and choreographed; longing … More Stimpson, Stevens
In the late 1950s Evelyn Fox Keller, then a PhD student, was the object of a rather successful demoralization campaign in the Department of Physics at Harvard University (Working It Out, 77-91). Why she was admitted to the program if her abilities were not in fact trusted is a fair question whose answer, I wager, … More Evelyn Fox Keller
I was born already tired of hearing about Tillie Olsen because in graduate school, the older students would insist she be included on every woman related syllabus, and they evinced some sort of secret knowledge that she was the answer (she was always to be assigned as the final reading in the course, the period). … More Tillie Olsen
Marilyn Young has had a very interesting career. In her essay in Working It Out (213-227), you can see that she thought of herself as a professional historian far sooner in life than I or most people I knew in graduate school in the eighties did. I do not really know why this is or … More Working It Out: Marilyn Young
Pamela Daniels’ piece, like many others in the book of which it is a part focuses on the effects of internalized gender roles and broad societal pressures which, together, have particular, constraining, and often unseen (or difficult to discern) influence on the attitudes of women toward themselves as workers and thus, their work. Several pieces … More “Not Proprietors, but Guests (In My Inner World)” […A Psychoanalytic Love Song]
A nadie le importa Milton Wolff ni el Morganza Spillway, cosa que me extraña a mí — que si fuera esto un huracán me estarían mirando todos. But if you would like, you can watch the whole town of Butte LaRose go down right here. Meanwhile, in graduate school and beyond we were constantly having … More On Seriousness
I am not sure what else Anne Lasoff wrote. She felt guilty about writing and “beat down guilt as one would beat down an igniting spark.” (209) She felt (guiltily) “that writing and school were not an avocation but a private vice.” (210) As she began writing her life was no longer pinpointed on her … More “Writing in the Real World”
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