Letter to the World: Seven Women Who Shaped the American Century - Softcover

Ware, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393343219 ISBN 13: 9780393343212

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998

Synopsis

In wanting to think through modern women's history, Susan Ware found herself drawn to seven larger-than-life women who influenced not only their professions--politics, journalism, anthropology, acting, sports, dance, and music--but also the way women saw themselves and their options in life. Ware recovers the people behind the legends of Eleanor Roosevelt, Dorothy Thompson, Margaret Mead, Katharine Hepburn, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Martha Graham, and Marian Anderson in compelling life stories. She looks at how they created their persona, how they kept themselves in the public eye, and how they did so for so long. She also speaks to how these women balanced their personal lives--choosing lovers and mates and deciding whether to have children. In the choices they made and the success of those choices are lessons relevant to contemporary working women. As part of living exceptional and unconventional lives, they gave other women the ability to desire beyond the limits imposed on women and allowed them to dream and strive for lives of independence and fulfillment.

About this title

Review:

Fresh and original.

A wonderful evocation of a period in which, for one brief moment, the sky was the limit for female achievement.--Molly Haskell

A thoughtful, provocative, manifold read.--Blanche Wiesen Cook

About the Author:

Susan Ware lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. She is the author of Still Missing: Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminism (Norton) and editor of Notable American Women, Vol. 5.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0393343219
• ISBN 13: 9780393343212
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 372