My Brilliant Friends

Our Lives in Feminism
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-19054-1
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Reihe: Gender and Culture Series

My Brilliant Friends is an innovative group biography of three friendships forged in second-wave feminism. Poignant and politically charged, the book is a captivating personal account of the complexities of women’s bonds.

Nancy K. Miller describes her friendships with three well-known scholars and literary critics: Carolyn Heilbrun, Diane Middlebrook, and Naomi Schor. Their relationships were simultaneously intimate and professional, emotional and intellectual, animated by the political ferment of the women’s movement. Friendships like these sustained the generation of women whose entrance into male-dominated professions is still reshaping American society. The stories of their intertwined lives and books reveal how feminism illuminated the political importance of personal experience. Reflecting on aging and loss, ambition and rivalry, competition and collaboration, the three narratives combine to show us why and how friendship matters in the worlds of both work and love. Inspired in part by the portraits of two women’s passionately enmeshed lives in Elena Ferrante’s acclaimed Neapolitan novels, My Brilliant Friends presents a revisionary perspective on the history and future of friendships between women.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Nancy K.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Über Autor(innen)

Nancy K. Miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her many books include Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts (1991); But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People’s Lives (Columbia, 2002); and Breathless: An American Girl in Paris (2013). She is coeditor with Victoria Rosner of the Gender and Culture series at Columbia University Press.