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Maybe it's me on being the wrong kind of woman

"Pollack shares with poignant humor and candid language the trials of being smart and female in a world that is just learning to imagine equality between the sexes. Maybe It's Me is a question all smart women have asked themselves. Pollack's autobiographical essays take us on a roller-coaster ride f...

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Main Author: Pollack, Eileen, 1956- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Encino, CA : Delphinium Books, [2022]
Edition:First edition.
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Pollack, Eileen, > 1956-
Women authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Women authors, American > 21st century > Biography.
Jewish women > United States > Biography.
Women scientists > United States > Biography.
Women physicists > United States > Biography.
Women college teachers > United States > Biography.
Autobiographies.
Essays.
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Summary:"Pollack shares with poignant humor and candid language the trials of being smart and female in a world that is just learning to imagine equality between the sexes. Maybe It's Me is a question all smart women have asked themselves. Pollack's autobiographical essays take us on a roller-coaster ride from gratifyingly humorous street-level stories of innocent curiosity to the calculated meanness of tweeny girls to the defensive strategies of threatened men to the 20,000-foot overview of how we all got here"--
Physical Description:269 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9781953002075
1953002072
Author Notes:Eileen Pollack grew up in Liberty, N.Y., the heart of the Jewish Catskills. One of the first two women to graduate from Yale with a BS in physics, she earned an MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of five critically acclaimed novels and two award-winning collections of short fiction. Pollack's work of creative nonfiction Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull was made into a movie starring Jessica Chastain. Her investigative memoir The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club was excerpted in The New York Times Magazine and went viral. "The Bris" appeared in the Best American Short Stories 2007; "Pigeons" was selected for Best American Essays 2013 and "Righteous Gentile" for Best American Travel Writing 2018 . A former director of the Helen Zell MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan, she now lives and writes in Boston.

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