| This Is Not the Ivy League Contributor(s): Blew, Mary Clearman (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803230117 ISBN-13: 9780803230118 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2011004073 |
| Series: American Lives (University of Nebraska) |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.7" W x 8.6" (0.90 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mary Clearman Blew's education began at home, on a remote cattle ranch in Montana. She graduated to a one-room rural school, then escaped, via scholarship, to the University of Montana, where, still in her teens, she met and married her first husband. This Is Not the Ivy League is her account of what it was to be that girl, and then that woman--pressured by husband and parents to be the conventional wife of the 1950s, persisting in her pursuit of an education, trailed by a reluctant husband and small children through graduate school, and finally entering the job market with a PhD in English only to find a whole new set of pressures and prejudices. This memoir is Blew's behind-the-scenes account of pursuing a career at a time when a woman's place in the world was supposed to have limits. It is a story of both the narrowing perspective of the social norm and the ever-expanding possibilities of a woman who refuses to be told what she can and cannot be. |