Becoming Someone New
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Becoming Someone
What shapes the way we see ourselves? An administrator is forced into early retirement; a busy doctor needs a break. A girl discovers her sexuality; an older man explores a new direction for his. An estate agent seeks adventure beyond marriage; a photojournalist retreats from an overwhelming world. A woman reduces her carbon footprint; a woman embarks on a transatlantic affair. A widow refuses to let her past trauma become public property; another marks her husband’s passing in style. Thought-provoking, playful and poignant, these 42 short stories address identity from different angles, examining the characters’ sense of self at various points in their lives. What does it mean to be a partner, parent, child, sibling, friend? How important is work, culture, race, religion, nationality, class? Does our body, sexuality, gender or age determine who we are? Is identity a given or can we choose the someone we become?
Becoming Someone New
How should we decide whether to experience something that is unlike anything we have ever encountered? Philosophers have recently argued that we are in situations of this kind for more of our decisions than we usually recognize. This volume brings together philosophers and psychologists to investigate the phenomenon of transformative experience.
Being Someone
When Ellen Harmon, a small town fourth-grade school teacher, introduces her students to her lesbian lover Janey and cattle dog Ida with the words “We’re another kind of family,” she’s not prepared for the result. Follow these two women as they get fired, chase each other cross country, dive into San Francisco’s women’s movement and computer world and wind up on opposite sides of an anti-nuke demonstration. In the end, their lasting bond prevails over the conventional ambition to ‘be someone.’