A Humming Under My Feet: A Book of Travail

by Barbara Deming

The author recounts her travels in Greece in 1950, her search for independence and selfhood, and her coming to terms with her lesbianism

269 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1987

About the author

Barbara Deming (July 23, 1917 – August 2, 1984) was an American feminist and advocate of nonviolent social change.

arbara Deming was born in New York City. She attended a Friends (Quaker) school up through her high school years.

Deming directed plays, taught dramatic literature and wrote and published fiction and non-fiction works. On a trip to India, she began reading Gandhi, and became committed to a non-violent struggle, with her main cause being Women's Rights. She later became a journalist, and was active in many demonstrations and marches over issues of peace and civil rights. She was a member of a group that went to Hanoi during the Vietnam War, and was jailed many times for non-violent protest.

In 1975, Deming founded The Money for Women Fund to support the work of feminist artists. Deming helped administer the Fund, with support from artist Mary Meigs. After Deming's death in 1984, the organization was renamed as The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.[5] Today, the foundation is "oldest ongoing feminist granting agency" which "gives encouragement and grants to individual feminists in the arts (writers, and visual artists)"

(from Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Jess Curry · Rating 5 out of 5]

μυάσασθαί τινά φαιμι f και ετερου f άμμέωυ 🪻

[Margo Solod · Rating 5 out of 5]

one of the great feminist writers if the fifties, deming started this book in europe in the 50's but took thirty years to finish it.
honest, introspective, absorbing.