Times They Were A-Changing: Women Remember the '60s & '70s

by Linda Joy Myers (Editor), Amber Lea Starfire (Editor), Kate Farrell (Editor)

Overview

These forty-eight powerful stories and poems etch in vivid detail the breakthrough moments experienced by women during the life-changing era that was the ’60s and ’70s. These women rode the sexual revolution with newfound freedom, struggled for identity in divorce courts and boardrooms, and took political action in street marches. They pushed through boundaries, trampled taboos, and felt the pain and joy of new experiences. And finally, here, they tell it like it was. From Vietnam to France, from Chile to England, from the Haight-Ashbury to Greenwich Village, and to the Deep South and Midwest, Times They Were A-Changing recalls the cultural reverberations that reached into farm kitchens and city “pads” alike—and in doing so, it celebrates the women of the ’60s and ’70s, reminding them of the importance of their legacy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781938314100
Publisher:	She Writes Press
Publication date:	09/08/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	353 KB

About the Author

Kate Farrell
Kate Farrell earned a MA from UC Berkeley; taught language arts in
high schools, colleges, and universities; founded the Word Weaving
storytelling project in collaboration with the California Department
of Education with a grant from the Zellerbach Family Fund, and
published numerous educational materials. She is founder of
Wisdom Has a Voice memoir project and edited Wisdom Has a
Voice: Every Daughter's Memories of Mother (2011). Farrell is
president of the Women's National Book Association, San Francisco
Chapter, a board member of Redwood Branch of the California
Writers Club, and a member of Story Circle Network and the
National Association of Memoir Writers.
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Linda Joy Myers is president and founder of the National
Association of Memoir Writers, and the author of four books:
Don't Call Me Mother—A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment
to Forgiveness, The Power of Memoir—How to Write Your Healing
Story, and a workbook The Journey of Memoir: The Three Stages of
Memoir Writing. Her book Becoming Whole—Writing Your Healing
Story was a finalist in ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award.

A speaker and award-winning author, she co-teaches the program
Write Your Memoir in Six Months, and offers editing, coaching, and
mentoring for memoir, nonfiction, and fiction. Visit her at: www.
namw.org ;and ;http://memoriesandmemoirs.com.
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Amber Lea Starfire
Amber Lea Starfire, ;whose passion is helping others tell their stories,
is the author of ;Week by Week: A Year's Worth of Journaling Prompts &
Meditations ;(2012) and Not the Mother I Remember, due for release
in the fall of 2013. A writing teacher and editor, she earned her
MFA in Creative Writing from University of San Francisco and is a
member of the California Writers Club in Napa and Santa Rosa, the
Story Circle Network, the National Association of Memoir Writers,
and the International Association for Journal Writing. In her spare
time, she enjoys spending time outdoors. Visit her at: www.writingthroughlife.
com.

Editorial Reviews

This marvelous anthology shows the vital role outrider women played in changing our world—often overlooked, they were the heart of the ’60s revolution.”
—Brenda Knight, author of Women of the Beat Generation

“Times They Were A-Changing is the book long missing from the packed second-wave feminism shelf. Finally, the women you never heard from are speaking in their own powerful voices about how each pushed America toward greater equality and justice. If you are a woman over a certain age, you will find yourself in this book’s stories. If you are a woman of any other age, you will find your own story informed and enriched by these beautifully written, honest, and evocative essays.”
—Gloria Feldt, Cofounder and President of Take the Lead, former President,Planned Parenthood Federation of America

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