The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s by Doherty, Maggie
The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s by Doherty, Maggie

The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDIn 1960, Harvard's sister college, Radcliffe, announced the founding of...
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Author: Maggie Doherty
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The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s by Doherty, Maggie

The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s

$38.38
The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s by Doherty, Maggie

The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s

$38.38
Author: Maggie Doherty
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

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 Marianna 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.

"Rich and powerful. . . . A love story about art and female friendship."
--Harper's Magazine

"Reads like a novel, and an intense one at that. . . . The Equivalents is an observant, thoughtful and energetic account."
--Margaret Atwood, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Author: Maggie Doherty
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/13/2021
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780525434603

About the Author
Maggie Doherty teaches writing at Harvard, where she earned her PhD in English. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and the Nation, among other publications. She lives in Cambridge.
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