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Book 1999

Letters of Intent

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Publisher
Free Press
Language
English
Published
1999
  • Sociology
  • Women's Studies - General
  • Middle aged women
  • Women - 20th Century History
  • Social Science
  • United States
  • Feminism & Feminist Theory
  • Love & Romance

The forty women whose original essays appear in Letters of Intent have left labels like Do-me Feminism, Girl Power, and Conservative Feminism at the door to talk in a personal and intimate way about real life for women in the nineties. Sports, homophobia, racism, identity, food, and cancer are among the other topics addressed in these intimate exchanges.

Letters of Intent is a celebration of the importance of forging connections. By turns funny, angry, reflective, and passionate, each woman shares a little piece of her self through the story she tells. This inspiring and enlightening book will delight women of all ages, who will discover in it an affirmation of the strength to be found in women's sense of shared community: an idea that is as old-fashioned as a pen-and-ink letter and as new as an e-mail.