《那些特别善于表达自己观点的女人们》内容简介

　　多萝西•帕克、汉娜•阿伦特、玛丽•麦卡锡、苏珊•桑塔格、琼•迪迪翁、诺拉•埃夫龙和珍妮特•马尔科姆只是一些穿行于二十世纪美国的文化和知识生活中的女性。在这一过程中，她们的人生轨迹穿插交织，她们之间的争论也火星四溅，甚至像她们与那些总是轻视她们作为记者、小说家、批评家和诗人的价值的男性之间的争论一样激烈。这些女性因为她们的“锐利”而被联系在一起：这种锐利表现为思想及智慧的精密与准确，这也是她们在通过自己的文字主张权力。

　　《锐利》是对这些女性及她们的世界的丰富、鲜活的描绘。曼哈顿的鸡尾酒会不仅供应酒精，还充满了可以杀人于无形的流言八卦，这些内容可能导致人们在《党派评论》和《纽约书评》上进行高风险的谩骂争论。在一个女性受妄自尊大的男性同行轻视嘲弄是惯例的环境中，这些女性是怎么获得如此巨大的影响力的故事让人着迷，也颇具启示性。

　　米歇尔•迪安将传记、批评、文化和社会历史融合在一起，创造出了一次令人着迷的探索之旅，她将向我们揭示一群才华横溢的女性是如何成为文化世界中的核心角色，在各自的领域里出类拔萃，并开始改变这个世界的。

　　作者简介

　　[加]米歇尔·迪安（MichelleDean），记者、评论家，曾荣获美国国家书评人协会颁发的2016年诺娜·巴拉希扬精彩评论奖（NonaBalakianCitationforExcellenceinReviewing）。迪安是《新共和》的特约编辑，她也在《纽约客》《国家》《纽约时报杂志》《抨击杂志》《纽约杂志》《她》《哈泼斯杂志》上发表文章。迪安还与他人一起监制和创作了电视剧《恶行》（TheAct）。该剧是根据迪安的文章《迪迪希望女儿总生病，吉普赛希望妈妈被谋杀》（DeeDeeWantedHerDaughterToBeSick,GypsyWantedHerMomMurdered）改编的，已于2019年3月在Hulu流媒体平台上播出。迪安现居于美国洛杉矶。

　　冯璇，自由译者，已翻译出版了《美第奇家族的兴衰》《印加帝国的末日》《利维坦：美国捕鲸史》《皮毛、财富和帝国》《布鲁内莱斯基的穹顶》《印象巴黎：印象派的诞生及其对世界的革命性影响》等作品。

The Women Who Are Particularly Good at Expressing their Opinions

Dorothy Parker, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, and Janet Malcolm are just some of the women who navigated the cultural and intellectual life of twentieth-century America. Along the way, their paths weave, and their arguments flare up, even as fiercely as they do with the men who always belittle their worth as journalists, novelists, critics and poets. These women are linked by their "sharpness" : a sharpness that manifests itself in the precision and precision of thought and intelligence, which is also their claim to power through their words.

"Sharpness" is a rich, vivid portrait of these women and their world. Manhattan cocktail parties don't just serve alcohol; they are filled with murderous gossip that can lead to high-stakes invective arguments in the Partisan Review and the New York Review of Books. The story of how these women achieved so much influence in an environment where women are routinely belittled and mocked by their self-important male counterparts is fascinating and revelatory.

Combining biography, criticism, cultural and social history, Michelle Dean creates a fascinating journey of discovery that reveals how a group of talented women became central players in the cultural world, excelled in their fields, and set out to change the world.

About the author

[and] michelle dean (MichelleDean), journalists, critics, has won the national book reviewer association in 2016 issued by the, Mr Barak young critics award (NonaBalakianCitationforExcellenceinReviewing). Dean is a contributing editor at The New Republic, and she's also published in The New Yorker, The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, Bashing Magazine, New York Magazine, Her, Harper's Magazine. Dean also co-produced and co-created the television series TheAct. The play is based on the dean's article "didi hope daughter always get sick," gypsy hope mom was murdered (DeeDeeWantedHerDaughterToBeSick, GypsyWantedHerMomMurdered) adapted, in March 2019, in Hulu streaming media platform. Dean lives in Los Angeles, USA.

Feng Xuan, a freelance translator, has published works such as The Rise and Fall of the Medici Family, The End of the Inca Empire, Leviathan: A History of American Whaling, Fur, Wealth and Empire, Brunelleschi's Dome, and Impression Paris: The Birth of Impressionism and Its Revolutionary Impact on the World.