Doris Lessing (b. 1919), considered by many critics to be Britain's most important contemporary woman novelist, has been probing deeply into the question of what it means to be an emancipated woman in today’s complex and male-oriented society, especially a woman involved with politics, with writing, with love and sex- a woman who frankly admits her sexuality, who refuses to compromise her essential being. This first full-length book on Doris Lessing explores ...