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Author Monroe, Debra, author.

Title My unsentimental education : a memoir / by Debra Monroe
Published Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]
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Contents 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
Summary "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
Notes Print version record
Subject Monroe, Debra.
Monroe, Debra -- Relations with men
SUBJECT Monroe, Debra fast
Subject Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Working class women -- United States -- Biography
Single mothers -- United States -- Biography
Man-woman relationships -- United States
Sex role -- United States
Working class families -- Wisconsin -- Spooner
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Parenting -- Single Parent.
Relations with men
Authors, American
Man-woman relationships
Sex role
Single mothers
Women authors, American
Working class families
Working class women
SUBJECT Spooner (Wis.) -- Biography
Subject United States
Wisconsin -- Spooner
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780820348735
0820348732