A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays
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In a career spanning four decades, Alix Kates Shulman has written on issues ranging from marriage, sex, and divorce to religious identity, age, and family devotion. Throughout her diverse body of work runs a staunch advocacy of equal rights and social justice. Beginning with her provocative essay "A Marriage Agreement," written in 1969, and continuing through to the heartrending "Caring for an Ill Spouse, and Other Caregivers," written in 2011, this collection provides a window into the social movements that defined an era.
Witty, stirring, and poignant,
illustrates how each generation, in Shulman's words, "can do no more than add its bit to the endless river of consciousness and change."
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About Alix Kates Shulman
Alix Kates Shulman (b. 1932) is the celebrated author of fourteen books, including the bestselling novel
(1972), which established her as a primary figure in feminism’s second wave. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Shulman studied philosophy at Columbia University and received an MA at New York University. She became a political activist, joining the Congress of Racial Equality in 1961 and the Women’s Liberation Movement in 1967. Her other novels include
(1978),
(1981),
. . . (1987), and
(2012). She has also written the memoirs
(1995),
(1999), and
(2008);a biography of Emma Goldman entitled
(1971); and
(2012). Shulman lives in Manhattan and continues to speak frequently on issues such as writing, feminism, and reproductive choice.
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