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.
General
| Imprint: |
Syracuse University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Writing American Women |
| Release date: |
April 2012 |
| First published: |
March 2012 |
| Authors: |
Joanne Frye
|
| Dimensions: |
236 x 163 x 27mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
| Pages: |
296 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8156-0969-8 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Health, Home & Family >
Family & health >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-8156-0969-8 |
| Barcode: |
9780815609698 |
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