all that history's in the book, but dorothea lange is the star of the story with her forceable personality, she soon moved into the driver's seat and in a certain sense took charge, although i also spend a lieutenant of time arguing with her back and forth over quite a number of years. of course, she didn't like the book. a biography is always got to be one life seen through another life, in this case mine. all i had written -- although i had written a great deal about gender, you know, gender, this biography forced me to exam more closely how gender works in the life of an individual. and this lecture, for which i'm very grateful for a must be of reasons, porsed me to look back and let me spell out what i was doing. let me warn you that what i'm about to say is not in the book at all. this is kind of a meditation after the fact about the book. now, speaking about this issue of gender was complex. because an artist's work lives after her, it was it was produced in one context but it takes on new meanings in whatever context people see it later. no matter how stringently we try to exclude t