My Brilliant Friends - Our Lives in Feminism

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.

List of contents

Prelude: The Art of Losing
1. Carolyn Heilbrun
2. Naomi Schor
3. Diane Middlebrook
Endpieces
Elegy : Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy
Dialogue in a Garden: Patricia Yaeger
Notes on Loss
Notes
Acknowledgments

About the author

Nancy K. Miller teaches life writing and cultural criticism at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts (1991) and But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People's Lives (Columbia, 2002), as well as the memoir Breathless: An American Girl in Paris (2013).

Summary

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.

Additional text

Miller characterizes these friendships as collaborative, competitive, nurturing, and occasionally confounding.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy K. Miller, Miller Nancy K.
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780231190558
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19055-8
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Gender and Culture Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Collected biographies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Feminism & feminist theory, United States of America, USA, Feminism and feminist theory