Necessary trouble growing up at midcentury
"A privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. For Drew Gilpin, the acceptance of both female subordination and racial hierarchy proved intolerable and galvanizing. Urged to become...
| Main Author: | Faust, Drew Gilpin (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- A death in the family
- A girl isn't the same
- Shooting the dog
- Many feelings about segregation
- Life in the fifties
- Girls who dare: Nancy, Anne, and Scout
- Friday for revolutions, Wednesday for life
- Across frontiers
- Catching up with the revolution
- The class of 1968
- Instead of happy childhoods
- This is the end
- Free, white, and twenty-one.