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In an engaging memoir, St. Clair, a writing teacher and coach, shares her journey from sheltered Southern Belle to liberated Steel Magnolia with many adventures along the way... This book is valuable as a rueful and thoughtful acknowledgment of the perils of liberation... An inspiring and nuanced memoir of second-wave feminism... -KIRKUS REVIEW In her new memoir, Marjorie St. Clair takes us on a personal journey of awakening to the internal Divine Feminine. Our heroine begins as a maiden and we accompany her archetypal growth into wife, mother and lover. This journey ends as St. Clair adjusts her crown, and steps into the self-actualized-takes-no-shit Queen. -Kristina Daniels, M.Ed. Counseling, Aromatherapist, Photographer A Southern Belle in Paris is a memoir of a young beauty pageant winner, military wife and mother of two from the Deep South. After a move to France, she becomes part of the emerging feminist movement in Paris in the 70s. She tells her resistance to the patriarchy through humorous, authentic, riveting stories. A conversation with Yoko Ono and dance with Aristotle Onassis hint at Marjorie's future adventures when she returns as a Steel Magnolia to Alabama to complete a divorce and start a new life. For all women seeking a strong independent voice, this memoir is an avenue for their voices to be heard. -Jules Nyquist, MFA & Author of Atomic Paradise, 2021 NM/AZ Book Award Winner In her memoir, St. Clair tells how she went to a feminist meeting I organized in Paris in 1972 to start a NOW chapter. It was a pivotal moment in the transformation of a small-town Southern girl into a woman who would take charge of her life, transforming the relationships with men who had defined her. This is not a political book about feminism, but a vivid memoir that deals with her own personal and family conflicts and failed affairs, and ends with an understanding and commitment to feminism, including how patriarchy has caused everything from bans on abortion and limitations on women's lives to the destruction of her own marriage. Many women will see their lives in her story. --Lucy Komisar was a national vice president of NOW, 1970-71. Today she is an investigative journalist who writes about financial and corporate fraud and corruption, with a particular interest in the use of the offshore secrecy system. Her website is thekomisarscoop.com.

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MARJORIE BEENE ST.CLAIR, holds a BS in English and graduate degrees in Whole Systems Design and Women's Studies. Since beginning her career as writing teacher, coach and writing retreat leader more than a decade ago, she has focused her writing & group facilitating skills in helping women find their unique voice through writing and encourages them to publish.She has authored and published two writing workbooks. Her book Wild Women Write: Re-Connecting with the Wild Feminine contains a wide variety of myths and stories intended to help women identify their close connection to the wild things of nature and their own instinctual knowing that may have gone missing in their lives. Writing exercises throughout the book encourage writers to engage both mentally and emotionally with the material. There are also many art exercises that offer further opportunities to express creativity.Her second writing workbook Writes of Passage: Writing Through the Seasons of Your Life contains stories, myths, art and writing exercises that guide writers through six phases of life. Participants have used writing from this book as material for writing their memoirs. Art exercises and writing prompts are a key part of both workbooks.She was an activist in helping to create the global women's movement that emerged from work done in the Second Wave feminist movement and is honored to have her letters, photos, and notes from her time as President and member of the International NOW Chapter in Paris in the 70s be archived at the Women's History library at Lesley College at Harvard. She has also been a vision quest leader for women's groups on vision quests to the desert and also developed a women's empowerment program through a non-profit group she created called WomanSpirit Maui.Marjorie's first memoir, A Southern Belle in Paris: Bikinis, Bombs, de Beauvoir & Billy Bob will be available Fall/Winter 2022.Visit her at www.writersadventure.com where you can subscribe to her newsletter & check out new offerings; or connect with her on Facebook at Writers Adventure, or LinkedIn. Denise Weaver Ross, the cover designer for this book, is an artist, poet and muralist. She has created five murals in the Albuquerque area, and her poems have been published in anthologies both nationally and internationally. As an artist, she explores her understanding of the world through images richly layered with mythological, natural, cultural, and historical references. For her, the magic happens when disparate images combine to make a new and unexpected image with layers rich with hidden meaning.

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