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Learn about Martha Weinman Lear, a writer and magazine editor who wrote Heartsounds, a best-selling memoir of her husband's heart disease and death. Find out her other books, publications, and awards.
Martha Weinman Lear is the author of Where Did I Leave My Glasses? as well as the bestsellers The Child Worshipers and Heartsounds, which became a Peabody Award-winning film.
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Oct 27, 2014 · Martha Weinman Lear returns to the territory she covered in “Heartsounds,” but this is not a sequel so much as a rueful epilogue, a brief account of her own recent skirmish with heart disease.
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In "The Second Feminist Wave," Martha Weinman Lear reported on the activities of the "new" feminists of the 1960s women's movement, including the National Organization for Women. NOW was not quite two years old in March 1968, but the organization was making its women's voices heard across the U.S. The article offered explanation and analysis from B...
"The Second Feminist Wave" also examined the often-ridiculed history of feminism and the fact that some women distanced themselves from the movement. Anti-feminist voices said U.S. women were comfortable in their "role" and lucky to be the most privileged women on Earth. "In the anti-feminist view," Martha Weinman Lear wrote, "the status quo is ple...
Martha Weinman Lear wrote a sidebar distinguishing feminism from "Woman Power," a peaceful protest of women's groups against the Vietnam War. Feminists wanted women to organize for women's rights, but sometimes criticized the organization of women as women for other causes, such as women against the war. Many radical feminists felt that organizing ...
Learn how Martha Weinman Lear reported on the activities and goals of the 1960s women's movement in New York Times Magazine in 1968. The article explained feminism, contrasted it with Woman Power, and featured Betty Friedan and Ti-Grace Atkinson.
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Feb 13, 2008 · Martha Weinman Lear has an answer. Lear, the author of Where Did I Leave My Glasses?, discusses the twin issues of memory loss and aging — what degree of forgetfulness is normal, and what can...
Martha Weinman Lear has gone to Cannes, France as a journalist when she gets a call from New York letting her know her husband, Hal, 53, is in the hospital after suffering a massive heart attack. Life grinds to a halt for the couple as Hal finds himself an invalid with Martha as his caretaker.
Oct 26, 2020 · A New York Times article by Martha Weinman Lear, “The Second Feminist Wave” first used the wave metaphor. She wrote, “Proponents call it the Second Feminist Wave, the first having ebbed after the glorious victory of suffrage and disappeared, finally, into the great sandbar of Togetherness.”
