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Necessary Trouble

By Faust, Drew Gilpin

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Necessary Trouble

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and the depression that connected them had unleashed a torrent of expectations and dissatisfactions-not only in global affairs but in American society and Americans' lives. A privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. For Drew Gilpin, the acceptance of both female subordination and racial hierarchy proved intolerable and galvanizing. Urged to become "well adjusted" and to fill the role of a poised young lady that her upbringing imposed, she found resistance was necessary for her survival. During the 1960s, through her love of learning and her active engagement in the civil rights, student, and antiwar movements, Drew forged a path of her own-one that would eventually lead her to become a historian of the very conflicts that were instrumental in shaping the world she grew up in. Culminating in the upheavals of 1968, Necessary Trouble captures a time of rapid change and fierce reaction in one young woman's life, tracing the transformations and aftershocks that we continue to grapple with today. Includes black-and-white images
Product details
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
2023-08-22
Publication Date:
2023-08-22
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0374601801
ISBN13:
9780374601805
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
512 g
Height:
160 cm
Width:
231 cm
Thickness:
29 cm

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