Equal. History of art, female friendship and emancipation in the 1960s

In the fall of 1960, at the prestigious Women"s College Radcliffe - Harvard"s Seven Sisters Odd - a scholarship program for ... mothers that had not had analogues in the world. From that moment on, Radcliffe became the center of development of feminist art and thoughts, giving a new impetus to the emancipation of women in America. Maggie Dortorti"s book tells the story of this unique project. In the center of her attention, the life of the five scholarships of the college who organized the Equivalents group: the poetess Anne Sexton and Maksin Kumin, writer Tilly Olsen, artist Barbara Swan and sculptor Marianne Pineda. The group members challenged the patriarchal “American happiness” of the early 1960s, in which the ideal of a woman was a well-groomed housewife serving a cozy house and a large family. The Radcliffe program helped many women realize their creative ambitions, and the book of pre -Erty is an exciting story about the female professional and creative community that was not like in American history. Maggie Dortorti is a writer and a literary critic, a teacher of Harvard University. The author’s articles were published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Nation and others