TY  - BOOK
AU  - Monroe,Debra
TI  - My unsentimental education
AV  - PS3563.O5273 Z46 2015eb
U1  - 813/.54B 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Athens
PB  - The University of Georgia Press
KW  - Monroe, Debra.
KW  - Monroe, Debra
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women authors, American
KW  - Working class women
KW  - United States
KW  - Single mothers
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Working class families
KW  - Wisconsin
KW  - Spooner
KW  - Spooner (Wis.)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Prologue -- History and practical math -- Regional trades -- On the down-low -- Drinks are on the house -- Intermission -- In the event of an apocalypse -- Serfs and landlords -- Depredating deer -- A dress rehearsal -- Epilogue
N2  - "A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, another, and builds a career--if only because her plans to be a Midwestern housewife continually get scuttled. Her professional life improves because she's good at 'hard-core feigning.' Fearless but naive, she vaults over class barriers, but never quite leaves her past behind. When it comes to men, she's still blue-collar. Monroe pays careful attention to what love and sex mean to a 'liberated' woman: to the pressure to be assertive yet not too assertive; to different prices women pay for being 'sultry-powerful' or 'brainy-powerful.' Both the story of her steady rise into the professional class and a parallel history of unsuitable exes, this memoir reminds us how accidental even a good life can be. If Joan Didion advises us 'to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be,' Monroe takes this advice a step further and nods at the people she might have become but didn't. Funny, poignant, wise, My Unsentimental Education explores the confusion that ensues when a working class girl ends up far from where she began"--Provided by publisher
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