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Passionate minds [electronic resource] : women rewriting the world / by Claudia Roth Pierpont.

Pierpont, Claudia Roth. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780307773319 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0307773310 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (323 p.) : ill.
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2001, c2000.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Originally published in hard cover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in 2000"--T.p. verso.

Formatted Contents Note:

A woman's place: Olive Schreiner -- The mother of confusion: Gertrude Stein -- Sex, lies, and thirty-five thousand pages: Anaïs Nin -- The strong woman: Mae West -- A study in scarlett: Margaret Mitchell -- A society of one: Zora Neale Hurston -- A perfect lady: Eudora Welty -- The rage of Aphrodite: Marina Tsvetaeva -- Twilight of the Goddess / Ayn Rand -- Memoirs of a revolutionary: Doris Lessing -- Hearts and minds: Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy.