Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own by Bolick, Kate
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780385347136
- Book Title
- Spinster : Making Alife of One's Own
- Publisher
- Crown/Archetype
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Women, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Personal Memoirs, Women's Studies, Literary
- Item Weight
- 18.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Crown/Archetype
ISBN-10
0385347138
ISBN-13
9780385347136
eBay Product ID (ePID)
203372969
Product Key Features
Book Title
Spinster : Making Alife of One's Own
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Personal Memoirs, Women's Studies, Literary
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
18.8 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-037871
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
One of Flavorwire 's 10 Books That Will Define the Conversation in 2015 "Kate Bolick brings a bracing feminist consciousness to bear on the lives of five unconventional women of the past and on her own young life in the twenty-first century. She writes about the dilemmas of love and work--then and now--with rare perspicacity and poignancy." --Janet Malcolm, author of The Journalist and the Murderer "In Spinster , her wise and subtle memoir, Kate Bolick explores that freighted term--and the often-maligned woman to whom it is attached--and deftly, persuasively reclaims it. In telling the stories of her literary 'awakeners'--five vividly-conjured women who escaped the conventional ties of marriage and family--and in elegantly weaving cultural history into her own personal progress to maturity, Bolick shows by argument and example that the single life is not a predicament to be escaped, but a distinctive, demanding, rewarding form of freedom. I wish I could give this book to my thirty-year-old self; she would have taken heart and inspiration from Bolick's bold and intelligent self-examination--not necessarily to follow her path, but to be tenderly reminded of this simple but easily neglected truth: that there is another way to want to be." -- Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in Middlemarch "What happens when you don't get married? Setting out to answer this question, Kate Bolick has written a moving, insightful, and important inquiry into how women's lives are narrated--not just in poems, novels, biographies, and memoirs, but also in our own heads, every day, as we make the constant stream of decisions that constitute a human life. Ambitious in the best way, Spinster made me think differently about everything from novelistic plot to the meaning of furniture."-- Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed "Women of the world, listen here: Drop whatever you're doing and read Kate Bolick's marvelous meditation on what it means to be female at the dawn of the 21st century. Part self-investigation, part social history, this utterly singular book reminded me, in its warmth and wit, of Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love and Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch , but ultimately Bolick's restless, razor-like intelligence calls to mind none other than Betty Friedan. And like The Feminine Mystique , Spinster will make you re-think your entire life, if not radically change it." -- Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year and A Fortunate Age "Refreshingly bold and incisive... As Bolick traces her evolution into a woman unapologetic for her choices and unafraid of her own personal freedom, she also reclaims the derogatory word 'spinster' for all females, married or not... A sexy, eloquent, well-written study/memoir." - Kirkus Reviews [starred], "In Spinster , her wise and subtle memoir, Kate Bolick explores that freighted term--and the often-maligned woman to whom it is attached--and deftly, persuasively reclaims it. In telling the stories of her literary 'awakeners'--five vividly-conjured women who escaped the conventional ties of marriage and family--and in elegantly weaving cultural history into her own personal progress to maturity, Bolick shows by argument and example that the single life is not a predicament to be escaped, but a distinctive, demanding, rewarding form of freedom. I wish I could give this book to my thirty-year-old self; she would have taken heart and inspiration from Bolick's bold and intelligent self-examination--not necessarily to follow her path, but to be tenderly reminded of this simple but easily neglected truth: that there is another way to want to be." -- Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in Middlemarch, "Kate Bolick brings a bracing feminist consciousness to bear on the lives of five unconventional women of the past and on her own young life in the twenty-first century. She writes about the dilemmas of love and work--then and now--with rare perspicacity and poignancy." --Janet Malcolm, author of The Journalist and the Murderer "In Spinster , her wise and subtle memoir, Kate Bolick explores that freighted term--and the often-maligned woman to whom it is attached--and deftly, persuasively reclaims it. In telling the stories of her literary 'awakeners'--five vividly-conjured women who escaped the conventional ties of marriage and family--and in elegantly weaving cultural history into her own personal progress to maturity, Bolick shows by argument and example that the single life is not a predicament to be escaped, but a distinctive, demanding, rewarding form of freedom. I wish I could give this book to my thirty-year-old self; she would have taken heart and inspiration from Bolick's bold and intelligent self-examination--not necessarily to follow her path, but to be tenderly reminded of this simple but easily neglected truth: that there is another way to want to be." -- Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in Middlemarch "What happens when you don't get married? Setting out to answer this question, Kate Bolick has written a moving, insightful, and important inquiry into how women's lives are narrated--not just in poems, novels, biographies, and memoirs, but also in our own heads, every day, as we make the constant stream of decisions that constitute a human life. Ambitious in the best way, Spinster made me think differently about everything from novelistic plot to the meaning of furniture."-- Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed "Refreshingly bold and incisive... As Bolick traces her evolution into a woman unapologetic for her choices and unafraid of her own personal freedom, she also reclaims the derogatory word 'spinster' for all females, married or not... A sexy, eloquent, well-written study/memoir." - Kirkus Reviews [starred], "In Spinster , her wise and subtle memoir, Kate Bolick explores that freighted term--and the often-maligned woman to whom it is attached--and deftly, persuasively reclaims it. In telling the stories of her literary 'awakeners'--four vividly-conjured women who escaped the conventional ties of marriage and family--and in elegantly weaving cultural history into her own personal progress to maturity, Bolick shows by argument and example that the single life is not a predicament to be escaped, but a distinctive, demanding, rewarding form of freedom. I wish I could give this book to my thirty-year-old self; she would have taken heart and inspiration from Bolick's bold and intelligent self-examination--not necessarily to follow her path, but to be tenderly reminded of this simple but easily neglected truth: that there is another way to want to be." -- Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in Middlemarch
Dewey Decimal
973.932092 B
Synopsis
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book "Whom to marry, and when will it happen--these two questions define every woman's existence." So begins Spinster , a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experiences as a starting point, journalist and cultural critic Kate Bolick invites us into her carefully considered, passionately lived life, weaving together the past and present to examine why- she--along with over 100 million American women, whose ranks keep growing--remains unmarried. This unprecedented demographic shift, Bolick explains, is the logical outcome of hundreds of years of change that has neither been fully understood, nor appreciated. Spinster introduces a cast of pioneering women from the last century whose genius, tenacity, and flair for drama have emboldened Bolick to fashion her life on her own terms: columnist Neith Boyce, essayist Maeve Brennan, social visionary Charlotte Perkins Gilman, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, and novelist Edith Wharton. By animating their unconventional ideas and choices, Bolick shows us that contemporary debates about settling down, and having it all, are timeless--the crucible upon which all thoughtful women have tried for centuries to forge a good life. Intellectually substantial and deeply personal, Spinster is both an unreservedly inquisitive memoir and a broader cultural exploration that asks us to acknowledge the opportunities within ourselves to live authentically. Bolick offers us a way back into our own lives--a chance to see those splendid years when we were young and unencumbered, or middle-aged and finally left to our own devices, for what they really are: unbounded and our own to savor., A New York Times Book Review Notable Book "Whom to marry, and when will it happen--these two questions define every woman's existence." So begins Spinster , a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experiences as a starting point, journalist and cultural critic Kate Bolick invites us into her carefully considered, passionately lived life, weaving together the past and present to examine why she--along with over 100 million American women, whose ranks keep growing--remains unmarried. This unprecedented demographic shift, Bolick explains, is the logical outcome of hundreds of years of change that has neither been fully understood, nor appreciated. Spinster introduces a cast of pioneering women from the last century whose genius, tenacity, and flair for drama have emboldened Bolick to fashion her life on her own terms: columnist Neith Boyce, essayist Maeve Brennan, social visionary Charlotte Perkins Gilman, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, and novelist Edith Wharton. By animating their unconventional ideas and choices, Bolick shows us that contemporary debates about settling down, and having it all, are timeless--the crucible upon which all thoughtful women have tried for centuries to forge a good life. Intellectually substantial and deeply personal, Spinster is both an unreservedly inquisitive memoir and a broader cultural exploration that asks us to acknowledge the opportunities within ourselves to live authentically. Bolick offers us a way back into our own lives--a chance to see those splendid years when we were young and unencumbered, or middle-aged and finally left to our own devices, for what they really are: unbounded and our own to savor.
LC Classification Number
HQ800.2
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