"A Ceremony of Discontent"
Title | "A Ceremony of Discontent" |
Year for Search | 1981 |
Authors | Arnason, Eleanor [Atwood](b. 1942) |
Secondary Title | A Room of One's Own |
Volume / Edition | 6.1 & 2 |
Pagination | 52-61 |
Date Published | 1981 |
Keywords | Female author, US author |
Annotation | Feminist eutopia set in a society where each woman had to make an irrevocable choice between motherhood and independent creativity and trading. Men would marry at least one of each. The story is about an independent woman, who is discontented but does not want to be a mother either. |
Additional Publishers | Rpt. in her Ordinary People: A Collection (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2005), 21-33. |
Author Note | Female author (b. 1942). |
Full Text | 1981 Arnason, Eleanor [Atwood] (b. 1942). “A Ceremony of Discontent.” A Room of One’s Own 6.1&2 (1981): 52-61. Rpt. in her Ordinary People: A Collection (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2005), 21-33. Feminist eutopia set in a society where each woman had to make an irrevocable choice between motherhood and independent creativity and trading. Men would marry at least one of each. The story is about an independent woman, who is discontented but does not want to be a mother either. Female author. |