Carolyn G Heilburn. Women's Lives: ...

Carolyn G Heilburn. Women's Lives: The View from the gate Toronto: U of Toronto P 1999 111 pp ISBN O-8020-4428-X $3500 cloth; ISBN 0-8020-8228-9 $1395 paper.

Carolyn Heilbrun's small and sometimes thought-provoking main division Women Lives is a compilation of the four talks that Heilbrun delivered as the Alexander reprimands at the University of Toronto in 1997 The fact that the four essays were prepared for oral presentation gives them an engagingly informal and sometimes conversational title which makes the work quite readable. This is also, in about ways, a book of