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My unsentimental education ...
"A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, another, and builds a career--if only because her plans to be a Midwestern housewife continually get scuttled. Her professional life improves because she's good at 'hard-core feigning.' Fearless but naive, she vaults over class barriers, but never quite leaves her past behind. When it comes to men, she's still blue-collar. Monroe pays careful attention to what love and sex mean to a 'liberated' woman: to the pressure to be assertive yet not too assertive; to different prices women pay for being 'sultry-powerful' or 'brainy-powerful.' Both the story of her steady rise into the professional class and a parallel history of unsuitable exes, this memoir reminds us how accidental even a good life can be. If Joan Didion advises us 'to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be,' Monroe takes this advice a step further and nods at the people she might have become but didn't. Funny, poignant, wise, My Unsentimental Education explores the confusion that ensues when a working class girl ends up far from where she began"--Provided by publisher
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monografia Rebiun18249400 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun18249400 cr cn||||||||| 150622t20152015gau o s000 0aeng|d 9780820348742 (hardcover : alkaline paper) 9780820348735 e-book) UAM 991008079567504211 UPCT u408195 MiAaPQ. eng. pn. MiAaPQ. MiAaPQ. BUC n-us--- n-us-wi Monroe, Debra author My unsentimental education recurso electrónico] Debra Monroe My unsentimental education a memoir Athens The University of Georgia Press [2015] Athens Athens The University of Georgia Press 1 online resource (217 pages) 1 online resource (217 pages) E-Libro Prologue -- History and practical math -- Regional trades -- On the down-low -- Drinks are on the house -- Intermission -- In the event of an apocalypse -- Serfs and landlords -- Depredating deer -- A dress rehearsal -- Epilogue "A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, another, and builds a career--if only because her plans to be a Midwestern housewife continually get scuttled. Her professional life improves because she's good at 'hard-core feigning.' Fearless but naive, she vaults over class barriers, but never quite leaves her past behind. When it comes to men, she's still blue-collar. Monroe pays careful attention to what love and sex mean to a 'liberated' woman: to the pressure to be assertive yet not too assertive; to different prices women pay for being 'sultry-powerful' or 'brainy-powerful.' Both the story of her steady rise into the professional class and a parallel history of unsuitable exes, this memoir reminds us how accidental even a good life can be. If Joan Didion advises us 'to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be,' Monroe takes this advice a step further and nods at the people she might have become but didn't. Funny, poignant, wise, My Unsentimental Education explores the confusion that ensues when a working class girl ends up far from where she began"--Provided by publisher Monroe, Debra Monroe, Debra- Relations with men Authors, American- 20th century- Biography Women authors, American- 20th century- Biography Working class women- United States- Biography Single mothers- United States- Biography Man-woman relationships- United States Sex role- United States Working class families- Wisconsin- Spooner Spooner (Wis.)- Biography Libros electrónicos E-Libro (Servicio en línea)