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02961aam a22003858i 4500 001 BE014A56C19D11EEA89D2B6520ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240202013317 008 230808t20232023pau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023020739 020 $a 0822947978 020 $a 9780822947974 035 $a (OCoLC)1405904913 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d JAS $d OCLCO $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS428 J87 2023 100 1 $a Jurecic, Ann, $d 1962- $e author. 245 10 $a Changing minds : $b women and the political essay, 1960-2000 / $c Ann JurecÌicÌ. 264 1 $a Pittsburgh, Pa. : $b University of Pittsburgh Press, $c [2023] 300 $a x, 212 pages ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture 520 $a "In Changing Minds: Women and the Political Essay, 1960-2000, Ann JurecÌicÌ documents the work of five paradigm-shifting essayists who transformed American thought about urgent political issues. Rachel Carson linked science and art to explain how pesticides threatened the Earth's ecosystems. Hannah Arendt redefined "evil" for a secular age after Eichmann was tried in Jerusalem. Susan Sontag's interest in the intersection of politics and aesthetics led her to examine the ethics of looking at photographs of suffering. Joan Didion became a political essayist when she questioned how rhetoric and sentimental narratives corrupted democratic ideals. Patricia J. Williams continues to write about living under a justice system that has attempted to neutralize race, gender, and the meaning of history. These writers reacted to the stressors of the late twentieth century and in response reshaped the essay for their own purposes in profound ways. With this volume, JurecÌicÌ begins to correct the longstanding dearth of scholarly studies on the importance of women and their political essays-works that continue to be relevant more than two decades into the twenty-first century"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-201) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Essaying, from past to present -- Rachel Carson: art, science, and the ecological essay -- Rereading Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem -- Susan Sontag, suffering, and the essay -- Joan Didion's politics -- Patricia Williams and the alchemy of the essay -- Afterword: "Why I write". 650 0 $a American essays $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American essays $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Women authors, American $y 20th century $x Political and social views. 650 0 $a Politics in literature. 830 0 $a Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619011055.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240305043612.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BE014A56C19D11EEA89D2B6520ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search