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Taking a long look : essays on culture, literature, and feminism in our time / Vivian Gornick.

by Gornick, Vivian.

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Literature -- History and criticism.

xi, 288 p. ; 22 cm.

Introduction -- Literature. Lore Segal ; Alfred Kazin ; Herman Melville ; Kathleen Collins ; Diana Trilling ; Mary McCarthy ; James Salter ; Edna St. Vincent Millay ; The Reading Group -- Culture. Uncle Tom's cabin ; Rachel Carson ; Justice: what's the right thing to do? ; Primo Levi ; Hannah Arendt ; Erich Fromm ; The Americanization of narcissism ; The second sex at fifth -- Two New York stories. On the bus ; Bobby's salon -- Essays in feminism. Consciousness ; On trial for acting like a man ; The women's movement in Cuba ; Why do these men hate women? ; Toward a definition of the female sensibility.

"For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal experience. Drawing on writing from the course of her career, this book illuminates one of the driving themes behind Gornick's work: the painful process of understanding one's self that binds us to the larger world"--From publisher.

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