Necessary trouble : growing up at midcentury
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Format
Book
ISBN
9780374601805, 0374601801
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Brownell Library - Adult Non-Fiction | 975.598 FAU | On Shelf | |
Burnham Memorial Library - Adult Biography | BIO Faust | On Shelf | |
Charlotte Library - Adult Biography | B FAU | On Shelf | |
Fletcher Free Library - 1st Floor-Main - New Materials Area | 975.598 FAU 2023 | On Shelf | |
Fletcher Free NNE Branch - New Materials Area | 975.598 FAU 2023 | Checked Out | May 1, 2024 |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Bryn Mawr College -- Students -- Biography.
Bryn Mawr College Students -- Biography.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Clarke County (Va.) -- Biography.
Concord Academy (Concord, Mass.) -- Students -- Biography.
Faust, Drew Gilpin -- Childhood and youth.
Gilpin family.
United States -- Race relations -- 20th century.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970.
Bryn Mawr College Students -- Biography.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Clarke County (Va.) -- Biography.
Concord Academy (Concord, Mass.) -- Students -- Biography.
Faust, Drew Gilpin -- Childhood and youth.
Gilpin family.
United States -- Race relations -- 20th century.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970.
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrations, portraits, photographs, facsimilies ; 24 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
9780374601805, 0374601801
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-288) and index.
Description
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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Faust, D. G. (2023). Necessary trouble: growing up at midcentury (First edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Faust, Drew Gilpin. 2023. Necessary Trouble: Growing Up At Midcentury. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Faust, Drew Gilpin. Necessary Trouble: Growing Up At Midcentury Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Faust, Drew Gilpin. Necessary Trouble: Growing Up At Midcentury First edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
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