To Deliver Me of My Dreams

by Elizabeth Avakian and Elizabeth Carlson

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890879060
• ISBN13: 9780890879061
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Femmes
• Length: 91 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

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The trauma and conflicts of growing up as a woman...

Elizabeth Avakian writes of the traumas of growing up as a woman in the early 1970's when large numbers of women were just beginning to become aware of what society had done to them growing up thinking that their place was [only] in the home and the only acceptable way to live as an independent being was to do it vicariously through some man.What particularly stood out for me was her pointing out the (probably well known) way in which the heroines of Shakespeare's comedies, "all of whom are far superior to their male counterparts," dress as men in order to accomplish things which were forbidden to them otherwise (giving as an example Portia in the Merchant of Venice).The chapter titles are telling: I. Men Travel, Women Have Love Affairs II. Life As Vicarious ExperienceIII. Men: Can We Live With Them?Along the way she discusses the dilemma that maternity or potential maternity brings and writes finally of the difficulty of maintaining her! masculine side while living with a man of her choosing.