Claire Myers Spotswood Owens

The Unpredictable Adventure

A Comedy of Woman's Independence

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Produktbeschreibung

This satirical fantasy novel was ahead of its time in demonstrating the hazards awaiting a woman who dares to defy the gender roles assigned her. This allegory uses anagrams to establish an allegorical pattern which satirizes cultural norms and questions male authority.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Syracuse University Press
• Seitenzahl: 532
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 140mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780815625834
• ISBN-10: 0815625839
• Artikelnr.: 21606782

Autorenporträt

Claire Myers Spotswood Owens (1896-1983) was born in Texas and attended Texas Woman's University. After numerous personal adventures, she settled in New York City where she worked in bookshops and wrote reviews. At the age of seventy she became attracted to Zen and moved to a colony in Rochester, New York, where she died at the age of eighty-seven. Miriam Kalman Harris is a writer and researcher and the author of Call It Courage: Women Transcending Violence.