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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20000521
Author:Dawn Trouard

PASSIONATE MINDS

Women Rewriting the World

By Claudia Roth Pierpont

Knopf. 320 pp. $26.95

WILLA CATHER AND

THE POLITICS OF CRITICISM

By Joan Acocella

Univ. of Nebraska. 127 pp. $20

The revolution is so over when writers from the New Yorker are reissuing their essays for academic and women's-studies markets. Passionate Minds convenes 12 of the toughest hombrettes of the 20th century for 11 and a half slick biographies (Mary McCarthy and Hannah Arendt co-habit a chapter). Pierpont clusters Olive Schreiner, Gertrude Stein, Anais Nin and Mae West in a section loosely dedicated to sexual freedom; ...

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