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In Changing Minds: Women and the Political Essay, 1960–2000, Ann Jure?i? documents the work of five paradigm-shifting essayists who transformed American thought about urgent political issues. Rachel Carson linked science and art to explain how pesticides threatened the Earth's ecosystems. Hannah Arendt redefined "evil" for a secular age after Eichmann was tried in Jerusalem. Susan Sontag's interest in the intersection of politics and aesthetics led her to examine the ethics of looking at photographs of suffering. Joan Didion became a political essayist when she questioned how rhetoric and sentimental narratives corrupted democratic ideals. Patricia J. Williams continues to write about living under a justice system that has attempted to neutralize race, gender, and the meaning of history. These writers reacted to the stressors of the late twentieth century and in response reshaped the essay for their own purposes in profound ways. With this volume, Jure?i? begins to correct the longstanding dearth of scholarly studies on the importance of women and their political essays—works that continue to be relevant more than two decades into the twenty-first century.
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Escritura creativaTable of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Essaying, from Past to Present
- Chapter 1. Rachel Carson: Art, Science, and the Ecological Essay
- Chapter 2. Rereading Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem
- Chapter 3. Susan Sontag, Suffering, and the Essay
- Chapter 4. Joan Didion’s Politics
- Chapter 5. Patricia Williams and the Alchemy of the Essay
- Afterword. “Why I Write”
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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