A Life of Her Own: The Transformation of a Countrywoman in 20th-Century France

A Life of Her Own: The Transformation of a Countrywoman in 20th-Century France

A Life of Her Own: The Transformation of a Countrywoman in 20th-Century France

A Life of Her Own: The Transformation of a Countrywoman in 20th-Century France

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Overview

First published in France in 1977, this autobiography vivifies the captivating Carles from her peasant origins in a tiny Alpine village through her work as a teacher, farmer, mother, feminist and political activist.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780140169652
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 06/01/1992
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

Table of Contents

A Life of Her OwnAcknowledgments
Introduction
Translator's Note
Preface
Part One
Chapter 1: A Tree That Died for Want of Sap
Chapter 2: Wolves in the Valley
Chapter 3: Tied Down on a Mule
Chapter 4: A Family Portrait
Chapter 5: Learning to Read
Chapter 6: They Died for Their Country
Chapter 7: And the Wind Would Carry Me Off Like a Bird
Chapter 8: Just As It Was in the Middle Ages
Chapter 9: Farewell, Joseph
Chapter 10: Thou Shalt Not Kill
Chapter 11: "It's When You Spits"
Chapter 12: Beware the Loose Woman
Chapter 13: Three Stories Plus One More
Chapter 14: One of Their Own
Chapter 15: Fatback and Wine-Soaked Bread
Chapter 16: The Story of Marie-Rose
Chapter 17: If I'd Been a Washerwoman Beside a Stream...
Chapter 18: "Joseph, You're a Thief!"
Chapter 19: A Second Family

Part Two
Chapter 20: You Have a Right to a Life of Your Own
Chapter 21: Paris Is Well Worth a Mass
Chapter 22: Against All Comers
Chapter 23: Does Your Teacher Hit You?
Chapter 24: My Four Wards
Chapter 25: The Golden Age
Chapter 26: Like a Bird Fallen from the Nest
Chapter 27: The Phony War
Chapter 28: Nine Names for a Hostage List
Chapter 29: Schoolteacher in Val-des-Prés
Chapter 30: Farewell to Jean Carles
Chapter 31: The Wolves Are Back
Chapter 32: November 11, 1977

Afterword
Glossary

What People are Saying About This

Phyllis Theroux

The story of Emilie Carles should have died untold, when she did. French peasant women don't ordinarily write autobiographies. But every once in a while, a human being is born into a class and she is simple too large to be contained by it. A Life of Her Own is the story of one of these exceptions. Emily Carles was a tough, fiercely intelligent woman who threw everything into her life and survived to make a tale of it. I loved it. And her.
—(Phyllis Theroux)

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