Ask a woman about her hair, and she just might tell you the story of her life. Ask a whole bunch of women about their hair, and you could get a history of the world. Surprising, insightful, frequently funny, and always forthright, the essays in Me, My Hair, and I are reflections and revelations about every aspect of women's lives from family, race, religion, and motherhood to culture, health, politics, and sexuality.
Ask a woman about her hair, and she just might tell you the story of her life. Ask a whole bunch of women about their hair, and you could get a history of the world. Surprising, insightful, frequently funny, and always forthright, the essays in Me, My Hair, and I are reflections and revelations about every aspect of women's lives from family, race, religion, and motherhood to culture, health, politics, and sexuality.
Elizabeth Benedict is a graduate of Barnard College and the author of five novels, including the bestseller Almost and the National Book Award finalist Slow Dancing. She is the editor of the anthologies What My Mother Gave Me, a New York Times bestseller, and Mentors, Muses & Monsters, and has written for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Esquire, and the Huffington Post, the Rumpus, and Tin House. Two of her essays have been selected for Best American Essays collections. She has taught widely and works as a writing coach and editor.
Inhaltsangabe
CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Rebecca Newberger Goldstein The Rapunzel Complex 1 Suleika Jaouad Hair Interrupted 9 Marita Golden My Black Hair 19 Anne Lamott Sister 35 Patricia Volk Frizzball 47 Alex Kuczynski And Be Sure to Tell Your Mother 55 Rosie Schaap Kozmic Hippie Hair Breakdown Blues 67 Bharati Mukherjee Romance and Ritual 75 Emma Gilbey Keller My Thick Hair 85 Adriana Trigiani Oh Capello 95 Deborah Tannen Why Mothers and Daughters Tangle over Hair 105 Honor Moore Beautiful Beautiful 117 Maria Hinojosa My Wild Hair 131 Jane Green Love at Last 139 Deborah Feldman The Cutoff 147 Ru Freeman Glory 157 Elizabeth Searle Act Tresses: Hair as Performance Art 171 Hallie Ephron Remembering Sandra Dee 185 Katie Hafner Maids of the Mist 195 Deborah Jiang-Stein Hair in Three Parts 205 Siri Hustvedt Much Ado about Hairdos 215 Myra Goldberg Two Hair Stories from One Life 231 Julia Fierro Capelli Lunghi 243 Deborah Hofmann Heavy Mettle 255 Jane Smiley At Last I Learn How to Turn Heads 269 Anne Kreamer Getting Real 277 Elizabeth Benedict No I Won’t Go Gray 287 Contributors 299
CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Rebecca Newberger Goldstein The Rapunzel Complex 1 Suleika Jaouad Hair Interrupted 9 Marita Golden My Black Hair 19 Anne Lamott Sister 35 Patricia Volk Frizzball 47 Alex Kuczynski And Be Sure to Tell Your Mother 55 Rosie Schaap Kozmic Hippie Hair Breakdown Blues 67 Bharati Mukherjee Romance and Ritual 75 Emma Gilbey Keller My Thick Hair 85 Adriana Trigiani Oh Capello 95 Deborah Tannen Why Mothers and Daughters Tangle over Hair 105 Honor Moore Beautiful Beautiful 117 Maria Hinojosa My Wild Hair 131 Jane Green Love at Last 139 Deborah Feldman The Cutoff 147 Ru Freeman Glory 157 Elizabeth Searle Act Tresses: Hair as Performance Art 171 Hallie Ephron Remembering Sandra Dee 185 Katie Hafner Maids of the Mist 195 Deborah Jiang-Stein Hair in Three Parts 205 Siri Hustvedt Much Ado about Hairdos 215 Myra Goldberg Two Hair Stories from One Life 231 Julia Fierro Capelli Lunghi 243 Deborah Hofmann Heavy Mettle 255 Jane Smiley At Last I Learn How to Turn Heads 269 Anne Kreamer Getting Real 277 Elizabeth Benedict No I Won’t Go Gray 287 Contributors 299
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Shop der buecher.de GmbH & Co. KG Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg Amtsgericht Augsburg HRA 13309
