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Minnie Bruce Pratt Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991
Firebrand Books 1991-12 1563410079 / 9781563410079 Hardcover Used: Like New Hardcover
New unread book. Has small shelf wear to cover. Pratt's appropriately titled collection of essays reflects on what it is to be different in our primarily white, male-dominated society. Beginning with an essay on her childhood, she recounts growing up as a white middle-class girl in the South, socialized by the white, Christian male's notion of what a female should be. She writes, "I did not even think of what I and my mother and other women were doing when we agreed, silently, unconsciously, to wear shoes of a certain style in certain places, to walk only in certain places at certain times, to accept without much question what was going on outside our home, the doings of white men . . . ." She also describes the ostracism she experienced as a mother who had her sons taken away from her when she chose to love another woman, noting that society simply would not, could not tolerate her or anyone else being different. Pratt has something to say about the contradictions in our society and her sensitivity is acute and justified. She is at times long-winded, but her insights are truly brilliant and deserve to be heard. For women's studies collections.
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16.34 USD
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