The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty

The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty

The timely, never-before-told story of five brilliant, passionate women who, in the early 1960s, converged at the newly founded Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study and became friends as well as artistic collaborators, and who went on to shape the course of feminism in ways that are still felt today.

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 Mariana 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.

Maggie Doherty teaches first-year writing at Harvard, where she earned her PhD in English. Her writing has appeared in many publications, including The New Republic, The New York Times, n+1, and The Nation. She lives in Cambridge, MA.

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ISBN 13	9781524733056
ISBN 10	1524733059
Title	The Equivalents
Author	Maggie Doherty
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Year published	2020-05-19
Number of pages	400
Prizes	Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2020
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