My Life, My Body |
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| Author:
| Piercy, Marge |
| Series title: | Outspoken Authors Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-62963-205-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2015 |
| Publisher: | PM Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $9.99 |
Book Description:
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In a candid and intimate new collection of essays, poems, memoirs, reviews, rants and railleries, Piercy discusses her own development as a working- class feminist, the highs and lows of TV culture, the ego-dances of a writer's life, the characatures of 'the homeless' and 'the housewife' , Allen Ginsberg and Marilyn Monroe, feminist utopias (and why she doesn't live in one), why fiction isn't physics; and of course, fame, sex and money, not necessarily in that order. Always personal...
More DescriptionIn a candid and intimate new collection of essays, poems, memoirs, reviews, rants and railleries, Piercy discusses her own development as a working- class feminist, the highs and lows of TV culture, the ego-dances of a writer's life, the characatures of 'the homeless' and 'the housewife' , Allen Ginsberg and Marilyn Monroe, feminist utopias (and why she doesn't live in one), why fiction isn't physics; and of course, fame, sex and money, not necessarily in that order. Always personal yet always political, Piercy's work is drawn from a deep well of feminist and political