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Title Working it out : 23 women writers, artists, scientists, and scholars talk about their lives and work / edited by Sara Ruddick and Pamela Daniels ; with a foreword by Adrienne Rich.

Imprint New York : Pantheon Books, c1977.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  301.412092 W892    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xxxii, 349 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Finding new forms / K. K. Hamod -- Juxtapositions / A. A. Lyndon -- Dependency, individuality, and work / A. Rorty -- Birth of the amateur / P. Daniels -- On work / C. R. Stimpson -- The anomaly of a woman in physics / E. F. Keller -- In search of our mother's gardens / A. Walker -- My work and my working class father / M. Stevens -- Scenes / J. Green -- A work of one's son / S. Ruddick -- Catching the sun / D. G. Michener -- Learning to work / V. Valian -- Notes from an extra in the American moving picture show / C. Y. Yu -- Writing in the real world / A. Lasoff -- Contradictions / M. Young -- Plain truth / N. Thornton -- "How can a little girl like you teach a great big class of men?" the chairman said, and other adventures of a woman in science / N. Weisstein -- What counts as work? / C. Sears -- Coming of age the long way around / N. V. Mengel -- Notes from a conversation on art, feminism, and work / M. Schapiro -- The sacred fire / C. Gilbert -- One out of twelve: women who are writers in our century / T. Olsen.
Subject Women artists -- Biography
Women authors -- Biography
Women scientists -- Biography
Women college teachers -- Biography
Added Author Ruddick, Sara, 1935-
Daniels, Pamela, 1937-
ISBN 0394409361 : $10.00

 
    
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