ISBN: 9780815651727

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 ins… More...

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. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY,Personal Memoirs, eBooks.com<

2012, ISBN: 9780815651727

Joanne Frye reflects on her experience as a literary scholar and single mother, seeing her life as the convergence of ´´three strands of contemporary culture; feminism, literature and cha… More...

Joanne Frye reflects on her experience as a literary scholar and single mother, seeing her life as the convergence of ´´three strands of contemporary culture; feminism, literature and changing ideas of motherhood. A Memoir of Feminism and Motherhood eBook PDF 10.04.2012 eBooks>Fremdsprachige eBooks>Englische eBooks>Sach- & Fachthemen>Biografien, Syracuse University Press, .201<

ISBN: 9780815651727

Joanne Frye reflects on her experience as a literary scholar and single mother, seeing her life as the convergence of "three strands of contemporary culture; feminism, literature and chan… More...

Joanne Frye reflects on her experience as a literary scholar and single mother, seeing her life as the convergence of "three strands of contemporary culture; feminism, literature and changing ideas of motherhood. Social Science Social Science eBook, Syracuse University Press<

2012, ISBN: 9780815651727

A Memoir of Feminism and Motherhood, eBook Download (PDF), eBooks, [PU: Syracuse University Press]