Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
In this thought-provoking memoir, Pulitzer Prize finalist Drew Gilpin Faust chronicles her coming-of-age in a Southern family and her growth into consciousness in postwar America.To grow up in the…
Specifikacia Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
In this thought-provoking memoir, Pulitzer Prize finalist Drew Gilpin Faust chronicles her coming-of-age in a Southern family and her growth into consciousness in postwar America.To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world transformed by warfare, by unspeakable examples of inhumanity, by nuclear threats, by polarized national alliances and by destabilized social hierarchies. Two wars and the Depression that connected them had unleashed a torrent of expectations and dissatisfactions--not only on a global stage for nations and peoples, but also in very personal and domestic domains.To grow up a little white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was to be expected to adopt a willful blindness to the cruelties of race and the constraints of gender. For young Drew Gilpin, the acceptance of a combination of racial privilege and female subordination proved both