All Ways A Woman by Carol Mann

All Ways A Woman by Carol Mann

All Ways a Woman is a celebration of women as seen through the eyes of watercolorist Lynn Centeno and the pen of author/poet Carol Mann. Revealed in its chapters are the complexities of a woman's life: her thoughts and feelings, her loves, her many roles, and her enduring strength. Each turn of the page reveals the uniqueness of her existence and the universality of her journey.

Both intimate and all-embracing, the book is a tribute to women from all walks of life who daily reach into themselves and out to each other to cope, live their lives, contribute, and survive. The last poem in the collection, The Gift of the Gathering, is a final homage to all women.

At its heart, All Ways a Woman is a book for the woman who, in a quiet moment, delves within herself to reflect or understand or remember, and who knows she is in all ways a woman, always. This is her story, her inspiration, her art, her poetry.

Barbara Katz Rothman, PhD, is professor of sociology, Baruch College and the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. She was the 1993 president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. She coauthored, with Wendy Simonds, Centuries of Solace: A Comparative Analysis of Maternal Consolation Literature (1992). Dr. Rothman is author of Recreating Motherhood: Ideology and Technology in a Patriarchal Society (1989), which received the 1991 Jessie Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association, The Tentative Pregnancy: Women's Experience with Amniocentesis and Prenatal Diagnosis (1993) and In Labor: Women and Power in the Birthplace (1982, 1991).