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from One Of America's Most Respected Critics Comes An Acclaimed Biography Of The Controversial Feminist. Here, Heilbrun Illuminates The Life And Explores The Many Facets Of Steinem's Complex Life, From Her Difficult Childhood To The Awakening That Changed Her Into The Most Famous Feminist In The World. Intimate And Insightful, Here Is A Biography That Is As Provocative As The Woman Who Inspired It. Photos. publishers Weekly biography Of The Pivotal And Occasionally Controversial Feminist And Co-founder Of Ms. Magazine. (oct.) Carolyn G. Heilbrun has devoted her life to the study of female destiny. In her now-classic Writing a Woman's Life, she eloquently revealed that those who have written about women's lives throughout the centuries have suppressed the truth of the female experience in order to make the written life conform to society's expectations of what a woman's life should be. In that book Heilbrun drew on the experiences of celebrated literary women - George Sand, Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich - to invite all women to write their own scripts, without inhibition. Now, in The Education of a Woman, Heilbrun draws on the life of one of the most controversial women of our time, a woman who most definitely, in word and in deed, wrote her own script. According to Heilbrun, Steinem "searched within her own gender for a destiny unconstrained and unprescribed - for herself, and for other women less unambiguously at home in their bodies." From a troubled childhood, through the founding of "Ms." magazine, to the present day, a biography examines the life and career of one of the most visible spokespersons for the women's movement THE TEMPTATION TO discover the heritage of previous generations and the impact of that heritage upon an individual is as powerful as it is elusive.