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Rebels in white gloves : coming of age with Hillary's class--Wellesley '69
- Title
- Rebels in white gloves : coming of age with Hillary's class--Wellesley '69 / Miriam Horn.
- Author
- Horn, Miriam.
- Publication
- New York : Times Books, [1999], ©1999.
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Details
- Description
- xxiv, 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- When these women entered Wellesley's ivory tower, they were initiated into a rarefied world where the infamous "marriage lecture" and white gloves at afternoon tea were musts. Many were daughters of privilege; many were going for their "MRS." Four years later, by the time they graduated, they found a world turned upside down by the Pill, Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, Roe v.
- Wade, the Vietnam War, student protests, the National Organization for Women, and the battle for the Equal Rights Amendment.
- For the thirtieth anniversary of the Class of '69 - "Hillary's class" - Horn has created trenchant, remarkably nuanced portraits of these women, chronicling their experiments with sex, work, family, politics, and spirituality. Horn follows them as they joined SDS, tumbled into free-love communities, prosecuted pot growers, ministered to Micronesian natives, fled trust-fund security, forged and surrendered marriages, plumbed the challenges of motherhood, and coped with the uncertainties of growing older.
- Their tumultuous life paths - wild, funny, heartbreaking, unforgettable - are a primer in women's history of the past fifty years and a timely attempt to make sense of the increasingly blurred line between the personal and the political.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-317) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The Wellesley Years -- 2. Mothers and Daughters -- 3. Rebellions and New Solidarities -- 4. Reinventing Womanhood -- 5. Breaking the Barriers -- 6. Balancing Work and Family -- 7. Full-Time Moms -- 8. On Their Own -- 9. Spiritual Journeys -- 10. In Search of Self -- 11. Life's Afternoon.
- ISBN
- 0812925017
- LCCN
- 98033331
- OCLC
- ocm40180221
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries