"Men have monopolized human experience, leaving women unable to imagine themselves as both ambitious and female. If I imagine myself (woman has always asked) whole, active, a self, will I not cease, in some profound way, to be a woman? The answer must be: imagine, and the old idea of womanhood be damned. . . . Let us imagine ourselves as selves, as at once striving and female. Womanhood can be what we say it is, not what they have always told us it was."
| ISBN: | 9780393310764 |
| Publication date: | 27th August 1993 |
| Author: | Carolyn G. Heilbrun |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 246 pages |
| Genres: |
Sociology and anthropology |