Barbara begins the discussion talking about the real world research grounding her book about three girlfriends confronting the death of a mutual friend together and the changing notion of femininity reveal in that confrontation. Barbara also discusses 1950s definitions of womanhood and the quiet lives of desperation they led that were shattered in the rise of the New Left social movements of the 1960s. In the second segment of the interview, Barbara discusses the current state of womanhood and the paths and lives available to women in the late 1980s, and the continuing importance of the informal networks that women have always relied upon to negotiate life and culture.
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