1990, ISBN: 9780679449836

In this revealing book, the stories of women's lives -- what happened to the class of '68 at New York's prestigious Brearley School -- are woven into a reflection on what makes for a succ… mais…

In this revealing book, the stories of women's lives -- what happened to the class of '68 at New York's prestigious Brearley School -- are woven into a reflection on what makes for a successful woman's life. Journalist and 1968 Brearley graduate Elizabeth Fishel chronicles the internal and external forces that shaped the lives of an in-between generation, women raised in '50s and early '60s privilege to be genteel and intelligent helpmates, yet who witnessed on graduation in 1968 dramatic changes and transformation in sexual expectations and roles and in society, requiring them to adapt. Fishel considers what has happened to her classmates and the more general insights about why some women in this generation thrived, while others did not. Why did most women from the class of '68 not do quite as well as the women who graduated only five years later? Fishel investigates women's styles of coping, their methods and modes of shaping their own lives, and eventually, the lives of their children. Fishel's story revolves around of the convergence of historical forces -- women's liberation, the sexual revolution, the civil rights movement, Vietnam -- and personal changes -- going to college, falling in love, navigating a career course, marriage, having and raising children. Through compelling portraits of her classmates, Fishel outlines the copers, the strugglers, the traditionalists, and the unconventional career trackers from the late 1960s to the late 1990s, examining the decisions and strategies that worked, or didn't work. For the class of 1968, a year Time Magazine would say "shaped a generation, " growing up meant grappling with two sets of assumptions -- those of their conservative andtraditional upbringing and those of the counter-culture life around them. Fishel considers what it meant to be tom between two worlds, and explores where they are at midlife. Fishel looks at why this particular generation flowered or floudered, while the class only five years behind them had more consistently successful careers and family lives. This book is filled with portraits of women: the success stories -- Alexa, Tess, Judith, and Fishel herself -- as well as the women who didn't cope quite as well, the less conventional stories -- Pamela, Maisie and Emma, as well as the tragedies -- the story of twins, Alice and Lily. Reunion: The Girls We Used to Be, the Women We Became Fishel, Elizabeth, Random House<

1990, ISBN: 9780679449836

In this revealing book, the stories of women's lives -- what happened to the class of '68 at New York's prestigious Brearley School -- are woven into a reflection on what makes for a succ… mais…

In this revealing book, the stories of women's lives -- what happened to the class of '68 at New York's prestigious Brearley School -- are woven into a reflection on what makes for a successful woman's life. Journalist and 1968 Brearley graduate Elizabeth Fishel chronicles the internal and external forces that shaped the lives of an in-between generation, women raised in '50s and early '60s privilege to be genteel and intelligent helpmates, yet who witnessed on graduation in 1968 dramatic changes and transformation in sexual expectations and roles and in society, requiring them to adapt. Fishel considers what has happened to her classmates and the more general insights about why some women in this generation thrived, while others did not. Why did most women from the class of '68 not do quite as well as the women who graduated only five years later? Fishel investigates women's styles of coping, their methods and modes of shaping their own lives, and eventually, the lives of their children.Fishel's story revolves around of the convergence of historical forces -- women's liberation, the sexual revolution, the civil rights movement, Vietnam -- and personal changes -- going to college, falling in love, navigating a career course, marriage, having and raising children. Through compelling portraits of her classmates, Fishel outlines the copers, the strugglers, the traditionalists, and the unconventional career trackers from the late 1960s to the late 1990s, examining the decisions and strategies that worked, or didn't work. For the class of 1968, a year Time Magazine would say "shaped a generation, " growing up meant grappling with two sets of assumptions -- those of their conservative andtraditional upbringing and those of the counter-culture life around them. Fishel considers what it meant to be tom between two worlds, and explores where they are at midlife. Fishel looks at why this particular generation flowered or floudered, while the class only five years behind them had more consistently successful careers and family lives.This book is filled with portraits of women: the success stories -- Alexa, Tess, Judith, and Fishel herself -- as well as the women who didn't cope quite as well, the less conventional stories -- Pamela, Maisie and Emma, as well as the tragedies -- the story of twins, Alice and Lily. Media >, [PU: Random House; Alfred A. Knopf]<

1969, ISBN: 0679449833

Journalist Elizabeth Fishel profiles 10 of her classmates from the class of 1968 at Manhattan's elite Brearley School, interweaving her own story with theirs to consider the choices they … mais…

Journalist Elizabeth Fishel profiles 10 of her classmates from the class of 1968 at Manhattan's elite Brearley School, interweaving her own story with theirs to consider the choices they made in a period of wrenching social change. Raised in a privileged society where roles and rules for women were clear, these Brearley girls found after high school that none of the rules applied. Responses to this chaotic new world included dropping out of college, delaying marriage, bouncing from job to job, and having fewer children than their mothers (or none at all). Fishel finds her group more confused than her sister's generation, only five years younger, who could "assimilate the clash of cultures much more gradually" and who in her view managed the juggling act of career and motherhood with greater ease. Reunion also makes an interesting contrast with Miriam Horn's Rebels in White Gloves, a similar study of Wellesley College's 1969 graduates, who also seem more solidly grounded than Fishel's friends. Despite a tendency to overschematize (her categories of "untraditional traditionalist, unconventional career-tracker, seeker, and juggler" aren't especially illuminating), Fishel depicts with appealing sympathy a group of women whose winding paths toward maturity convince her "that being comfortable with change is the most important skill to develop early." --Wendy Smith biographies,specific groups,women Biographies, Random House<

2000, ISBN: 9780679449836

New York: Random House, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Very Good. Random House First Print Very Good Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Blue paper covered boards backed with… mais…

New York: Random House, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Very Good. Random House First Print Very Good Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Blue paper covered boards backed with tan spine gilt lettered at spine, solidly, tight with decorative head and tail bands, square, flat, corner tips sharp, spine heel bumped unclipped jacket designed by Mary Schuck with photo by Bearley School Yearbook, light riffling of upper edge and spine head. Fishel interweaves the story of the Brearley School class of 1968 with the history of a generation of American women born into tradition in the 1950s and dumped into an environment of feminism, sexual liberation, and political radicalism. Fishel traces the lives of ten of her classmates. New York: Random House First Edition, 2000. 6.25" x 9.5" tall; 282pp., Random House, 2000<