Composing a life
Using the lives of five women as her framework, Bateson delves into the creative potential of the complex lives that we live today, where ambitions are contantly refocused on new goals and possibilities. We meet Johnnetta Cole, anthropologist and college president; Joan Erikson, dancer, writer, and...
| Main Author: | Bateson, Mary Catherine. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Grove Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West,
[2001]
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| Edition: | 1st Grove Press ed. |
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| Summary: |
Using the lives of five women as her framework, Bateson delves into the creative potential of the complex lives that we live today, where ambitions are contantly refocused on new goals and possibilities. We meet Johnnetta Cole, anthropologist and college president; Joan Erikson, dancer, writer, and jewelry designer; Alice d'Entremont, electrical engineer and entrepreneur; Ellen Bassuk, psychiatrist and researcher on homelessness; writer and professor Mary Catherine Bateson. |
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| Item Description: |
Originally published: New York : Plume, 1989. |
| Physical Description: |
xiv, 241 pages ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
0802138047 (pbk.) 9780802138040 (pbk.) |
| Author Notes: |
Bateson has written and co-authored many books and articles, and lectures across the country and abroad. She has taught at Harvard, Northeastern University, Amherst College, Spelman College and abroad in the Philippines and in Iran. In 2004 she retired from her position as Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University and is now Professor Emerita. She serves on multiple advisory boards including the National Center on Atmospheric Research and the NSF, dealing with climate change. Mary Catherine Bateson's books in print include Composing a Life, Our Own Metaphor, and Peripheral Visions, as well as a memoir, With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Her latest is Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom (Knopf September 2010). Bateson divides her time between New Hampshire and Massachusetts. (Bowker Author Biography) |