| I Dwell in Possibility: A Memoir Rev and Expande Edition Contributor(s): McNaron, Toni (Author) |
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ISBN: 1558612807 ISBN-13: 9781558612808 Publisher: Feminist Press OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2001 Annotation: In this moving autobiography, Toni McNaron bravely depicts her early encounters with racism in pre-civil rights Alabama alongside her personal struggle with sexual identity. This book is a powerful social document as well as a brave account of one woman's emotional, psychological, and intellectual self-actualization over five decades. "An engrossing read in the tradition of Audre Lorde's "Zami" and Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings,""-Susan Stanford Friedman, Professor University of Wisconsin-Madison Marketing Plans for "I Dwell in Possibility": Toni McNaron teaches women's studies and English at the University of Minnesota and is the editor of "The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty-First Century," |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Biography & Autobiography | Educators - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2001050127 |
| Series: Cross-Cultural Memoir |
| Physical Information: 0.96" H x 5.52" W x 8.42" (0.95 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Alabama - Sex & Gender - Lesbian - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This brave and lyrical memoir is a powerful social document as well as an account of emotional, psychological, and intellectual self-actualization over four decades--from McNaron's childhood encounters with segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, through her first days of teaching and her fear of exposure as a lesbian and an alcoholic, to her recovery and coming out. |