Word Play Word Power: A Woman's Personal Growth Workbook

The book is divided into three sections, writing about writing, writing about women, and utilizing your writing. The first contains readings and exercises designed to get you comfortable with the writing process. The second set of readings reflect the major topics that have absorbed women writers--love, marriage, work, divorce, sexuality, children, aging, dying--often with new twists and insights designed o jar you into unexplored territory. The third offers a series of readings and exercises to facilitate the integration of writing into your life--whether that is in terms of personal growth or publication. With readings from Margaret Atwood, Betty Friedan, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison, Marge Piercy, Susan Sontag, Alice Walker, Virginia Woolf, and 50 others.