English Presentation

CAROLYN G.HEILBRUN

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“Power is the ability to take one's place in

whatever discourse is essential to action

and the right to have one's part matter.”

-- Carolyn G. Heilbrun

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EARLY LIFE

Carolyn Heilbrun was born in East

Orange, New Jersey, on January 13, 1926 to a

wealthy Austrian-American mother and a self-

made immigrant father.

Her family moved to Manhattan after losing their

wealth during the depression. Her father

eventually rebuilt his fortune and Carolyn was

able to attend several prestigious institutions.

EDUCATION

Carolyn earned a B.A. from Wellesley in 1947 and pursued a career as a scholar of English literature in the male dominated ivy-league world of academe.

She earned both her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University, where she went on to become tenured, hold a full professorship by 1972, and given an endowed chair in 1986.

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WORKS PUBLISHED

Christopher Isherwood (1970); The Education of a

Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem (1995); The Garnett

Family (1961); Hamlet’s Mother and Other Women (1990);

Lady Ottoline’s Album: Snapshots and Portraits of her

Famous Contemporaries (and of Herself), editor (1976);

The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty (1997);

Reinventing Womanhood (1979); The Representation of

Women in Fiction, editor, with Margaret R. Higgonet

(1983); Toward a Recognition of Androgyny (1973); Writing

a Woman’s Life (1988).

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SIGNIFICANCE

Throughout her life and in many of her books

Carolyn Heilbrun worked to improve the condition of

women in society.

She is sometimes referred to as the mother of

academic feminism. Introduced the issue under the

pen name Amanda Cross

Committed Suicide in 2003.

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HONORS & AWARDS

She was awarded:

Two Guggenheim Fellowships (1966 & 1970)

A Bunting Institute Fellowship (1976)

Two Rockefeller Fellowship (1966 & 1967)

An NEHSR Fellowship (1983)

She also served as a member of the executive

council of the MLA from 1976 to 1979 and as

its president in 1984.

GLORIA STEINEM

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GLORIA, THE FEMINIST

A writer and activist, involved in social justice

movements for over forty years (feminism)

Spokeswoman for Women’s Liberation

Movement in 1960s and 1970s

Published article, “After Black

Power, Women’s Liberation” which brought

her to the forefront of the feminist movement.

IN HER OWN WORDS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2cqVYlW

YCs

WORKS CITED

"Gloria Steinem." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 14 Nov. 2012.

Web. 15 Nov. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Steinem>.

Grigoriades, Vanessa. “A Death of One’s Own.” New York

Magazine. 8 December 2003. Web. November 12,2012

<http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_9589/>

Klingenstein, Suzanne. "Carolyn G. Heilbrun." Jewish Women: A

Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 1 March 2009. Web. November

12, 2012. <http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/heilbrun-carolyn-g>