No Word from Winifred Summary
Amanda Cross and Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

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No Word from Winifred Summary

The overriding theme in No Word from Winifred is self-determination.

Winifred's early desire to be male instead of female springs directly from her perception that men have more freedom — in dress, in education, in activity. Her work as a hired hand on a dairy farm constitutes a self-imposed exile following her break-up with Martin Heffenreffer, and her final departure for India, although done at Martin's insistence that she leave the country, is...

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