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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780812925012
- Subject Area
- Education
- Publication Name
- Rebels in White Gloves : Coming of Age with Hillary's Class-Wellesley '69
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
- Item Length
- 9.6 in
- Subject
- Student Life & Student Affairs, Higher
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Item Weight
- 23.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Number of Pages
- Xxiv, 328 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0812925017
ISBN-13
9780812925012
eBay Product ID (ePID)
369362
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
Xxiv, 328 Pages
Publication Name
Rebels in White Gloves : Coming of Age with Hillary's Class-Wellesley '69
Language
English
Subject
Student Life & Student Affairs, Higher
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Education
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
23.3 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-033331
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"In her fascinating and poignant account of the Wellesley Class of '69, Miriam Horn gives us a vivid and often humorous capsule history of the women who helped revolutionize America in the last quarter of the twentieth century. I must say, however, that I never remember those young women wearing white gloves." --Cokie Roberts, ABC News, Wellesley '64
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
378.744/7
Synopsis
From the Introduction Theirs was a generation that imagined it would reinvent the world. Self-conscious iconoclasts and pioneers, the women of '69 would experiment boldly with sex and work and family and religion and politics. They would also develop the habit of seeing their own lives in historic terms. In recounting their histories, each of these women has made a story of her life. They have not kept many secrets. * * * * "Freak out, Suzy Creamcheese. Drop out of school before your brain rots," urged Frank Zappa. "Protest boxy suits! Protest big ugly shoes!" exhorted the Wellesley News. "Get your ring before spring," cooed the women's magazines. Reject "inauthentic reality" in favor of "a more penetrating existence," advised Hillary Rodham to her fellow graduates. Whipsawed by these conflicting mandates, the Wellesley Class of '69 were women on the cusp, feeling out the new rules. Rebels in White Gloves is their story. 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. "Coming of age at a rare moment in history and with the equally rare privilege of an elite college education," writes Miriam Horn, "the women who graduated from Wellesley in 1969 were destined to be the monkeys in the space capsule, the first to test in their own lives the consequences of the great transformations wrought by the second wave of feminism." 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. As Horn writes, "The women of '69 have come out as debutantes. They have also come out as lesbians, as victims of domestic abuse, as alcoholics." In all their guises, these are wise, well-spoken women who look back on the last thirty years with great eloquence and humor, and whose coming of age mirrors all women's struggles to define themselves. On Commencement Day at Wellesley thirty years ago, Hillary Rodham told her classmates, "We are, all of us, exploring a world that none of us understands and attempting to create within that an uncertainty. The only tool we have ultimately to use is our lives." In Rebels in White Gloves, Miriam Horn has created raw and intimate portraits of women on the verge. 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.
LC Classification Number
LD7212.6
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