The equivalents : a story of art, female friendship, and liberation in the 1960s
by Doherty, Maggie (Author)
Summary
"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... Full description
- Introduction
- Part One: 1957-1961. 1. Little White Picket Fences; 2. Who Rivals?; 3. Writer-Human-Woman; 4. A Messy Experiment; 5. I Got It!
- Part Two: 1961-1963. 6. The Premier Cru; 7. We're Just Talking; 8. Happily Awarded; 9. The Equivalents; 10. Me, Me Too; 11. Mad for the Message; 12. Genius of a Sort
- Part Three: 1964-1974. 13. Do It or Die Trying; 14. We Are All Going to Make It; 15. Hurt Wild Baffled Angry; 16. There's Nothing Wrong With Privilege Except That Everybody Doesn't Have It; 17. Springs of Creativity; 18. The New Exotics; 19. Which Way Is Home
- Epilogue.