1 Published BooksKathleen Courtenay Stone
As a writer, I spend most of my time thinking and writing about women's history, books and art, and how they intersect. Previously in my work as a lawyer, I wrote countless legal briefs. Disparate as this sounds, the through-line between my writing then and now is my interest in exploring new material and synthesizing it in written form.
My book, They Called Us Girls: Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men, is a collection of biographical portraits of seven women who had careers in male-dominated professions in the mid-twentieth century. Through this group biography, I look at the subject of female ambition - where it came from and how it was nurtured in an era when housewife was considered the highest and best use of a woman's abilities.
I look forward to visiting book groups, libraries and classrooms to talk about They Called Us Girls. Please visit my website to see the book trailer, find out about events and to send me a message. www.kathleencstone.com.
