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04251aam a2200601 i 4500 001 790F9F98E6E711E7A3BFBD0A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20171222010219 008 150622t20152015gau s000 0aeng 010 $a 2015005541 020 $a 0820348740 020 $a 9780820348742 035 $a (OCoLC)905685807 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d CDX $d GUA $d OCLCF $d UBY $d OCLCQ $d OCL $d IaU $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-wi $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/n-us-wi $a n-us-wi $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/n-us-wi 050 00 $a PS3563.O5273 $b Z46 2015 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Monroe, Debra, $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88174839 245 10 $a My unsentimental education / $c Debra Monroe. 264 1 $a Athens, Georgia : $b The University of Georgia Press, $c [2015] 300 $a 199 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Crux : Georgia series in literary nonfiction 500 $a "A memoir"--Jacket. 520 2 $a "A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, another, and builds a career--if only because her plans to be a Midwestern housewife continually get scuttled. Her professional life improves because she's good at 'hard-core feigning.' Fearless but naive, she vaults over class barriers, but never quite leaves her past behind. When it comes to men, she's still blue-collar. Monroe pays careful attention to what love and sex mean to a 'liberated' woman: to the pressure to be assertive yet not too assertive; to different prices women pay for being 'sultry-powerful' or 'brainy-powerful.' Both the story of her steady rise into the professional class and a parallel history of unsuitable exes, this memoir reminds us how accidental even a good life can be. If Joan Didion advises us 'to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, ' Monroe takes this advice a step further and nods at the people she might have become but didn't. Funny, poignant, wise, My Unsentimental Education explores the confusion that ensues when a working class girl ends up far from where she began"--Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Prologue -- History and practical math -- Regional trades -- On the down-low -- Drinks are on the house -- Intermission -- In the event of an apocalypse -- Serfs and landlords -- Depredating deer -- A dress rehearsal -- Epilogue. 600 10 $a Monroe, Debra. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88174839 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 20th century $v Biography. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100576 650 0 $a Women authors, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Working class women $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Single mothers $z United States $v Biography. 600 10 $a Monroe, Debra $x Relations with men. 650 0 $a Man-woman relationships $z United States. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107268 650 0 $a Sex role $z United States. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111587 650 0 $a Working class families $z Spooner. $z Spooner. 651 0 $a Spooner (Wis.) $v Biography. 600 17 $a Monroe, Debra. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01787516 650 7 $a Authors, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00821764 650 7 $a Man-woman relationships. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01007080 650 7 $a Sex role. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01114598 650 7 $a Single mothers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01119370 650 7 $a Women authors, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177210 650 7 $a Working class families. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01180553 650 7 $a Working class women. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01180569 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 651 7 $a Wisconsin $z Spooner. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01930226 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423686 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423686 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026049 830 0 $a Crux (Athens, Ga.) $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016072441 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018025259.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=790F9F98E6E711E7A3BFBD0A97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search