Biting the Moon: A Memoir of Feminism and Motherhood

by Joanne S. Frye

A second-year doctoral student from a Midwestern family, Frye is twenty-three when she marries a German professor ten years her senior. Previously sheltered, Frye seeks new vistas but instead finds herself confined by the demands of her life: wife to a volatile and domineering husband, mother of two young daughters, and aspiring academic. With her dissertation completed, she finally realizes that the only way to wrest her identity and freedom from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815609698
• ISBN13: 9780815609698
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"