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Author Laurens, Camille, author.

Title Girl / Camille Laurens ; translated from the French by Adriana Hunter.

Publication Info. New York : Other Press, [2022]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F LAURENS, C.    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  FIC LAURENS    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FIC LAUR    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  FIC LAURENS    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Adult Fiction  LAURENS    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F LAURENS CAMILLE    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  LAURENS    Check Shelf
Description 244 pages ; 21 cm
Summary "From the acclaimed author of Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, a deeply personal and insightful account of being a girl, woman, and mother in a world that sees the feminine as less than. Born in 1959 to a middle-class family, Laurence BarraquƩ grows up with her sister in the northern city of Rouen. Her father is a doctor, her mother a housewife. She understands from an early age, by way of language and her parents' example, that a girl's place in life is inferior to a boy's: Asked for the 1964 census whether he has any children, her father promptly responds, "No. I have two daughters." When Laurence eventually becomes a mother herself in the 90s, she grapples with the question of what it means to be a girl, to have a girl, and what lessons she should try to pass down or undo. Masterful in her analysis of the subtle and obvious ways women are undermined by a sexist society, Camille Laurens lays out her experiences of the past forty years in this poignant, powerful book. Girl is at once intimate and sweeping in its depiction of the great challenges we face, such as equalizing the education system and transmitting feminist values to the younger generations"-- Provided by publisher.
Language Translated from French.
Subject Women -- Fiction.
Sexism -- Fiction.
Sex role -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Fiction.
Added Author Hunter, Adriana, translator.
Added Title Fille. English
ISBN 9781635421019 (paperback)
1635421012 (paperback)
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