Shedding

And, Literally Dreaming

Author: Verena Stefan
Secondary Author: Tobe Levin
ISBN: 1558610847

   This volume brings together prose from three decades of writing by Verena Stefan, one of the most influential contemporary feminist writers in the world.    The original 1975 German publication ofShedding-a novella that narrates the radical transformation of a young woman against the backdrop of the early 1970s women's, civil rights, and health care movements-created such a stir that the work has been hailed as "the feminist equivalent to Mao's little red book." To date, over 300,000 copies ofShedding have been sold in Germany. Included here is the first English translation ofLiterally Dreaming, a delightful collection of eight stories written in the 1980s, drawing a portrait of life as the narrator ofShedding may have envisioned it-women living together in natural and rural settings, independent of men. Stefan has written for this volume a new essay, "Euphoria and Cacophony," which traces the extraordinary reception-and backlash-that greetedSheddingin the 1970s, and the effec

Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Publish Date: 1994

Subjects: Fiction / General, Literary Collections / Essays

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Fiction)