Portrait of a Feminist

<b>Infused with a passion for justice this sublime expansive memoir by a Peruvian American feminist </b><b>will appeal to fans of <i>Crying in H Mart </i>and <i>How to Raise a Feminist Son</i>. </b> <p/>Through braided memories that flash against the present day <i>Portrait of a Feminist</i> depicts the evolution of Marianna Marlowe's identity as a biracial and multicultural woman--from her childhood in California Peru and Ecuador to her adulthood as an academic a wife and a mother. <p/>How does the inner life of a feminist develop? How does a writer observe the world around her and kindle from her earliest memories a flame attuned to the unjust? <p/>With writing that is simultaneously wise and shimmering nuanced and direct Marlowe confronts her own experiences with the hallmarks of patriarchy. Interweaving stories of life as the child of a Catholic Peruvian mother and an atheist American father in a family that lived many years abroad she examines realities familiar to so many of us--unequal marriages class structures misogynist literature and patriarchal religion. <i>Portrait of a Feminist</i> explores the essential questions of feminism in our time: <i>What does it look like to live in defense of feminism?</i> <i>How should feminism be evolving today?</i>