How Long to Read Lesbian Self-writing

How Long Does it Take to Read Lesbian Self-writing?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 58 minutes to read Lesbian Self-writing by Lynda Hall

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Join the process of self-discovery as lesbian writers redefine their roles in love, family, work, and society! "What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?" asked the poet Muriel Rukeyser. "The whole world would split open." The women represented in Lesbian Self-Writing: The Embodiment of Experience tell the truth about their lives, using many forms and levels of discourse. They split the world open with their powerful words and ideas about being a woman, a lesbian, a writer, a person of color, a child, a mother. These identities come vigorously alive in these pages, offering the reader new models humanity. The contributors celebrate the writerly "act" of creating a sense of self through finding one's own voice and creating community for others. Through political and literary analysis, they also provide ideas toward building a queer aesthetic. Ranging from elegant expositions of critical theory to comfortable discussions of individual lives, the essays in Lesbian Self-Writing: The Embodiment of Experience represent some of the finest writers working today, including Kate Millett, Karla Jay, Mary Meigs, Jane Rule, and Maya Chowdhry. The authors'unsparing honesty and wise compassion break through the silence to celebrate individual empowerment and to share coping and survival strategies to help all women. In Lesbian Self-Writing: The Embodiment of Experience, the particular interests, needs, and concerns of lesbian writers illuminate the common cessays in Lesbian Self-Writing: The Embodiment of Experience represent some of the finest writers working today, including Kate Millett, Karla Jay, Mary Meigs, Jane Rule, and Maya Chowdhry. The authors'unsparing honesty and wise compassion break through the silence to celebrate individual empowerment and to share coping and survival strategies to help all women. In Lesbian Self-Writing: The Embodiment of Experience, the particular interests, needs, and concerns of lesbian writers illuminate the common concerns of all women's lives, such as: handling the conflicts of multiple identities and expectations: dyke versus lesbian, writer versus author baking bread to reconnect with the past using biomythography to understand oneself, the writing process, and other authors'work redefining the family as something that can be created, not just endured finding both community and uniqueness in shared experiences--dolls, food, Catholic confession, children, gardens, aging, gender creating a sense of self through finding one's own voice Lesbian Self-Writing brings together works that focus on the elusive place where memory, language, body, experience, and deliberations on the practice and process of writing converge. In turns hilarious, moving, and painful, this anthology stands with the very best of writing about writing.

How long is Lesbian Self-writing?

Lesbian Self-writing by Lynda Hall is 175 pages long, and a total of 44,625 words.

This makes it 59% the length of the average book. It also has 55% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Lesbian Self-writing Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 3 minutes to read Lesbian Self-writing aloud.

What Reading Level is Lesbian Self-writing?

Lesbian Self-writing is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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