Girl
(Book - Regular Print)
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Contributors
Published
New York : Other Press, [2022].
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 21 cm
Status
Sedona Public Library - FIC - Fiction Books
LAURENS, C.
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LAURENS, C.
1 available
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Published
New York : Other Press, [2022].
Format
Book - Regular Print
Language
English
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Description
"From the acclaimed author of Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, a deeply personal and insightful account of being a girl, woman, and mother in a world that sees the feminine as less than. Born in 1959 to a middle-class family, Laurence Barraqué grows up with her sister in the northern city of Rouen. Her father is a doctor, her mother a housewife. She understands from an early age, by way of language and her parents' example, that a girl's place in life is inferior to a boy's: Asked for the 1964 census whether he has any children, her father promptly responds, "No. I have two daughters." When Laurence eventually becomes a mother herself in the 90s, she grapples with the question of what it means to be a girl, to have a girl, and what lessons she should try to pass down or undo. Masterful in her analysis of the subtle and obvious ways women are undermined by a sexist society, Camille Laurens lays out her experiences of the past forty years in this poignant, powerful book. Girl is at once intimate and sweeping in its depiction of the great challenges we face, such as equalizing the education system and transmitting feminist values to the younger generations"--,Provided by publisher.
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Translated from French.
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Sedona Public Library - FIC - Fiction Books | LAURENS, C. | Find It Now |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Laurens, C., Laurens, C., & Hunter, A. (2022). Girl . Other Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Laurens, Camille, Camille. Laurens and Adriana, Hunter. 2022. Girl. Other Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Laurens, Camille, Camille. Laurens and Adriana, Hunter. Girl Other Press, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Laurens, Camille,, Camille Laurens, and Adriana Hunter. Girl Other Press, 2022.
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