![]() ![]() ![]() and author of a hit 80s book that gives the novel its title. When she falls foul of a sexual predator at a frat party, the first person she is able to tell, with a whispered “Someone did something to me”, is a fellow female student who is fast asleep.Įnter Faith Frank, a legendary feminist only “a couple of steps down from Gloria Steinem in fame”, founder of a magazine in the mould of Ms. The unfairness of her situation fuels her, but she is also hampered by her sense of not being heard bad enough if it’s your stoner mother and father not listening, far worse if you worry about gaining attention in the wider world. ![]() The Female Persuasion opens in 2006, at a minor Connecticut college to which ambitious, hard-working Greer Kadetsky has come after her flaky parents failed to fill out the correct paperwork so that she could take up her place at Yale. There is an immense generosity to Wolitzer’s even-handed portrayal of activism subjected to time and exigency ![]()
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