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The equivalents : a story of art, female friendship, and liberation in the 1960s / Maggie Doherty.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First editionDescription: 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781524733056
  • 1524733059
  • 9780525434603
  • 0525434607
Other title:
  • Art, female friendship, and liberation in the 1960s
Subject(s):
Contents:
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.
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 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 and became friends as well as artistic collaborators, and who went on to shape the course of feminism in ways that are still felt today.

In 1960, Harvard's sister college, Radcliffe, announced the founding of an Institute for Independent Study, a "messy experiment" in women's education that offered paid fellowships to those with a PhD or "the equivalent" in artistic achievement. Five of the women who received fellowships--poets Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin, painter Barbara Swan, sculptor Mariana Pineda, and writer Tillie Olsen--quickly formed deep bonds with one another that would inspire and sustain their most ambitious work. They called themselves "the Equivalents." Drawing from notebooks, letters, recordings, journals, poetry, and prose, Maggie Doherty weaves a moving narrative of friendship and ambition, art and activism, love and heartbreak, and shows how the institute spoke to the condition of women on the cusp of liberation.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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