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Women's Lives: The View from the Threshold

Women's Lives: The View from the Threshold

Heilbrun, Carolyn

Paperback

Series: Alexander Lectures

General Gender StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0802082289
ISBN13: 9780802082282
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1999
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.53
Language: English

Eve has been supposed to have remarked to Adam as they left the garden, my dear, we are in a state of transition, and of course they were. It is no coincidence that Eve delivers this line. While humanity in every era and stage in history has been marked by a strong sense of itself as being in a state of transition, women have always had a particularly close relationship to changeable terrain. In their quest for self knowledge, boundaries, and names, women have found themselves between varying cultural demands. In one view, perhaps the dominant one, the only way to gain positive status is to fit appropriately into approved categories: appropriately beautiful, appropriately young, appropriately thin, appropriately successful. In another view, the view compellingly expressed by Carolyn Heilbrun, women must abandon the appropriate and seek out the liminel. The word limen means threshold. To be in a state of liminality is to be poised upon uncertain ground, on the brink of leaving one condition or country or self to enter upon another. When recognized, liminality offers women freedom to be or become themselves.

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