Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant by Anne Gardiner Perkins

Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant

Anne Gardiner Perkins

384 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction education feminism history informative medium-paced

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WINNER OF THE 2020 CONNECTICUT BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION"Perkins makes the story of these early and unwitting feminist pioneers come alive against the backdrop of the contemporaneous civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1970s, and offers obs...

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