A Fearless Woman: A Memoir of Resilience and Resistance

by Ruth Rosen

Overview

In this riveting memoir, a woman grew up in an orphanage reveals the sexual harassment and male discrimination she encountered in her family, from employers and with men. With grit and talent, she still enjoyed a tumultuous love affair, and became a successful career woman. A Fearless Woman, like Vivian Gornick’s unforgettable Fierce Attachments, will move readers to examine their own lives.

A Fearless Woman is an enthralling and extraordinary memoir. Raised in an orphanage, this impoverished girl eventually rose to become an executive in the new beauty business. Written in an authentic and accessible voice, her memoir reveals, in great detail, a remarkable, unpredictable, exhilarating and painful life as she encounters repeated encounters with male domination.

Ruth Rosen, a distinguished historian of women’s lives, has once again discovered an unknown and indomitable woman. No longer hidden in history, her magnificent memoir reveals an unforgettable person.

- Sandra Gilbert, Distinguished Professor of English, U.C. Davis

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781665782333
Publisher:	Archway Publishing
Publication date:	09/29/2025
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.33(d)

About the Author

Ruth Rosen, Professor Emerita of History at U.C. Davis, is a distinguished historian and an award-winning journalist. She discovered and edited The Mamie Papers,
a New York Times notable book: authored
The Lost Sisterhood, a pioneering history of prostitution; and The World Split Open:
How the Modern Women’s Movement
Changed America, a book of the month selection. The recipient of many journalist awards, she wrote op-eds for the Los Angeles Times and was an editorial writer and columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle.