An amazing trajectory: From child star to prize-winning writer to
feminist icon Robin Morgan is famous as a bestselling author of
nonfiction, a prize-winning poet, and a founder and leader of
contemporary feminism. Before all of that, though, she was a working
child actor. From the age of two, “Saturday’s child had to work
for a living.” She had her own radio show on New York’s
WOR, Little Robin Morgan, by the time she was four; starred during
the Golden Age of television in TV’s Mama from ages seven to
fourteen; and was named the Ideal American Girl when she was twelve.
In Saturday’s Child, she writes for the first time about her
working youth, her battles to break away from show business and from
her mother, her search for her absent, abandoning father, her entrance
into the literary world, and the development of her politics,
relationships, and writing. Morgan describes her tumultuous but
successful life with startling honesty: her flight from child stardom
into literature, her twenty-year marriage to a bisexual man, her
joyful motherhood, her lovers, both male and female, her actions as a
“temporary terrorist” on the left during the 1970s, and her
travels and experiences in the global women’s movement. She writes
about compiling and editing the famous anthologies Sisterhood Is
Powerful and Sisterhood Is Global and later cofounding with Simone
de Beauvoir the Sisterhood Is Global Institute. Saturday’s
Child follows this “Ideal American Girl” on her path to becoming
the feminist icon she is today. Epic in scope, witty, and bravely
insightful, this is the tale of half of humanity rising up and
demanding its rights, told through the intensely personal story of one
remarkable woman.
Les mer
A Memoir
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781497678088
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
Open Road Media
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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