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Lädt ... The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960svon Maggie Doherty
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I have a wee obsession with Cambridge, Massachusetts, and I loved learning more about the Radcliffe Institute and how it was founded along with all the history around the times. This read tried to focus on five women, but I'd say it was mostly a book about Anne Sexton, then a bit of Tillie Olsen and a bigger smidge of Maxine Kumin. Still appreciated learning about amazing women I hadn't heard of before, and this also has a stellar notes section for further studying. ( ) In 1960, Radcliffe College launched a pioneer program , the Institute of Independent studies. It's goal was to foster the talent of those women who were stuck at home, raising children, without a space to call their own. It offered these women a stipend for childcare or household help, a office of their own at the institution and free access to the library. These five women, Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin, posts, Barbara Swan a painter, a sculptor, Mariana Pineda and Tillie Olsen, a writer. Although it was stated that this program was for women with degrees, it was also stated that the equivalency in work or talent could also apply. These five women were without official college credentials and hence were known as the Equivalents. I loved this book, a cultural biography of the times but also an in-depth look at these women and their lives, prior to the program and after. It focuses quite often on the complicated friendship between Anne Sexton, Kumin and Olsen. There are many different women mentioned in this book, Virginia Woolf of course and her Room of my Own, Sylvia Plath, whose talent was astonishing but not enough to overcome life's obstacles. The groundbreaking Feminine Mystique, trailblazers all, some successful, some not. It is a wonderful look at women who transcended their expected roles and wanted more. Not all would find it, but many did. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"An important debut work of narrative nonfiction: the timely, never-before-told story of five brilliant, passionate women who, in the early 1960s, converged at the newly founded Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, stepping outside the domestic sphere and shaping the course of feminism in ways that still resonate today. In 1960, at the height of an era that expected women to focus solely on raising families, Radcliffe College announced the founding of an Institute for Independent Study, offering fellowships to women with a PhD or "the equivalent" in artistic success. Acclaimed writer and Harvard lecturer Maggie Doherty introduces us to five brilliant friends--poets Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin, painter Barbara Swan, sculptor Mariana Pineda, and writer Tillie Olsen--who came together at the Institute and would go on to make history. Drawing from their notebooks, letters, lecture recordings, journals, and finished works, Doherty weaves from these women's own voices a moving narrative of friendship, ambition, activism, and art. Beautifully written and urgently told, The Equivalents shows us where we've been--and inspires us to go forward"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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