(1935, New York). Is an American critic, journalist, essayist, and memoirist. As a journalist, many of Gornick’s articles are collected in Essays in Feminism (1978) and reflect the revolutionary excitement of the growing women’s movement. Vivian Gornick explores the actual and metaphoric significance of being an outsider—perpetually “half in, half out.” Her most outstanding works are her groundbreaking anthology, Woman in Sexist Society: Studies in Power and Powerlessness (1971), Fierce Attachments: A Memoir (1987) and Approaching Eye Leve l(1996). Gornick’s work powerfully evokes the urban Jewish American milieu of her childhood and reflects unflinchingly on the parallel humiliations of antisemitism and sexism.