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| A Life in Motion
ISBN: 9781558616981
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / The Feminist Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Teachers; Feminists;
"A sharp and compelling memoir" of a feminist icon who forged positive change for herself, for women everywhere, and for the world (Rosemary G. Feal, executive director of the Modern Language Association).
Florence Howe has led an audacious life: she created a freedom school during the civil rights movement, refused to bow to academic heavyweights who were opposed to sharing power with women, established women's studies programs across the country during the early years of the second wave of the feminist movement, and founded a feminist publishing house at a time when books for and about women were a rarity.
Sustained by her relationships with iconic writers like Grace Paley, Tillie Olsen, and Marilyn French, Howe traveled the world as an emissary for women's empowerment, never ceasing in her personal struggle for parity and absolute freedom for all women.
Howe's "long-awaited memoir" spans her ninety years of personal struggle and professional triumphs in "a tale told with startling honesty by one of the founding figures of the US feminist movement, giving us the treasures of a history that might otherwise have been lost" (Meena Alexander, author of Fault Lines ).
Florence Howe was an American author, publisher, literary scholar, and historian. She was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 17, 1929. She earned a BA from Hunter College in English (1950), and a MA in English from Smith College (1951). She attended the University of Wisconsin (1954), continuing her graduate studies in art history and literature. Howe was awarded several honorary doctorates in humane letters from New England College (1977) and Skidmore College (1979). She also rec'd an honorary doctorate from DePauw University (1987). Her life and work were focused on feminism and social justice. She founded Feminist Press in 1970. In 1973, she became the president of the Modern Language Association. She was a college professor and taught women's studies at Goucher College. In 1971, she became professor of Humanities at SUNY. She wrote or edited more than a dozen books and more than 120 essays. Her essays were published in the Harvard Educational Review, the Nation, the New York Review of Books, PMLA, the Women's Review of Books, and a variety of anthologies. Her books included a memoir, A Life in Motion (2011), a collection of essays, Myths on Coeducation (1984). Florence Howe died on September 12, 2020 in New York City, at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) |
