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Women Together, Women Alone: The Legacy of the Consciousness-Raising Movement Paperback – September 26, 1990

by Anita Shreve (Author)
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The thoughts of seven women on how their lives have changed since they joined the women's movement in the early seventies, each of whose lives is a fascinating paradigm for 20 years of social change.
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  1. Language
    English
  2. Publisher
    Ballantine Books
  3. Publication date
    September 26, 1990
  4. Dimensions
    8.2 x 5.44 x 0.68 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    0449905330
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0449905333
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Carefully measuring the success and failure of the women's consciousness-raising movement of the 1970s, arguably the heart of the women's movement, "Shreve makes a convincing case for renewing the collective intimacy that CR groups provide," maintained PW. Author tour.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ballantine Books (September 26, 1990)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0449905330
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0449905333
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.2 x 5.44 x 0.68 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

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Anita Shreve

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Anita Shreve grew up in Dedham, Massachusetts (just outside Boston), the eldest of three daughters. Early literary influences include having read Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton when she was a junior in high school (a short novel she still claims as one of her favorites) and everything Eugene O'Neill ever wrote while she was a senior (to which she attributes a somewhat dark streak in her own work). After graduating from Tufts University, she taught high school for a number of years in and around Boston. In the middle of her last year, she quit (something that, as a parent, she finds appalling now) to start writing. "I had this panicky sensation that it was now or never."

Joking that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejections from magazines for her short stories ("I really could have," she says), she published her early work in literary journals. One of these stories, "Past the Island, Drifting," won an O. Henry prize. Despite this accolade, she quickly learned that one couldn't make a living writing short fiction. Switching to journalism, Shreve traveled to Nairobi, Kenya, where she lived for three years, working as a journalist for an African magazine. One of her novels, The Last Time They Met, contains bits and pieces from her time in Africa.

Returning to the United States, Shreve was a writer and editor for a number of magazines in New York. Later, when she began her family, she turned to freelancing, publishing in the New York Times Magazine, New York magazine and dozens of others. In 1989, she published her first novel, Eden Close. Since then she has written 14 other novels, among them The Weight of Water, The Pilot's Wife, The Last Time They Met, A Wedding in December, Body Surfing, Testimony,and A Change in Altitude.

In 1998, Shreve received the PEN/L. L. Winship Award and the New England Book Award for fiction. In 1999, she received a phone call from Oprah Winfrey, and The Pilot's Wife became the 25th selection of Oprah's Book Club and an international bestseller. In April 2002, CBS aired the film version of The Pilot's Wife, starring Christine Lahti, and in fall 2002, The Weight of Water, starring Elizabeth Hurley and Sean Penn, was released in movie theaters.

Still in love with the novel form, Shreve writes only in that genre. "The best analogy I can give to describe writing for me is daydreaming," she says. "A certain amount of craft is brought to bear, but the experience feels very dreamlike."

Shreve is married to a man she met when she was 13. She has two children and three stepchildren, and in the last eight years has made tuition payments to seven colleges and universities.

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Pamela
4.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly useful for today's women's groups
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2002
This little volume is a surprisingly enjoyable gem, despite its age. It offers many insights for people involved in today's women's groups.
Basically, the author talks about the 1970s feminist consciousness raising movement, and how it impacted the lives of those who were involved. The book was written during the 1980s doldrums when women's activism had faded for many. However, individual women were feeling isolated and wishing for a rebirth of female community.
Today, the Internet has become the means of communication for developing women's communities that are not limited by geography. This book is a guide to leading a women's group with goals of personal insight and life enhancement. The assumption is that, once we understand ourselves, we can then move outwards and impact the world around us. Good reading.
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