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Reunion: The Girls We Used to Be, the Women We Became |
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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
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