Pygmalion's Chisel: For Women Who Are "Never Good Enough" - Couverture rigide

Hallstead, Tracy M.

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ISBN 10 : 1443846112 ISBN 13 : 9781443846110

Editeur : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Pygmalion’s Chisel: For Women Who Are “Never Good Enough,” by Tracy M. Hallstead, examines the enduring critical presence in contemporary Western culture that scrutinizes, critiques, and sizes women down in their daily lives, despite rights gained through the centuries. Pygmalion was the ancient mythical sculptor who believed that all women were essentially flawed. He therefore endeavored to chisel to perfection a statue of a woman he called “Galatea.” Like the perpetually carved and perfected Galatea, women labor under Western culture’s a priori assumption that they are flawed, yet they are often unable to account for the self-criticism and self-doubt that result from this premise. As Hallstead analyzes the culture’s requirements for the perfect woman, she traces how cultural forces permeate women’s personal lives. In calling for solutions, she resurfaces the thinking of historical women who responded, rather than reacted, to the patriarchal culture that devalued them. In engaging these women of the past, whose struggles were eerily similar to our own, Hallstead encourages a responsive feminism that becomes the clear path leading outside Pygmalion’s chamber door.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tracy M. Hallstead received a Master of Arts in Humanities from Wesleyan University and a Master of Arts in Writing, Rhetoric, and Media Arts from Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut), where she won the Paul Smith Memorial Prize for Most Distinguished Thesis. She mentors first-year students and runs a peer support program at Quinnipiac University, where she teaches in the university’s Seminar Series. Hallstead and her husband, Christopher, live with their two daughters in Middletown, Connecticut.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1443846112
• ISBN 13: 9781443846110
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 150
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible