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It's Good to be a Woman

 

Welcome to the website of Alison Baker, author of It's Good to Be a Woman: Voices from Bryn Mawr, Class of ’62.

USA Book News selected It's Good To Be a Woman as a Finalist for Best Book Awards 2007

It's Good to Be a Woman tells the stories of a group of women who came out of Bryn Mawr College determined to have lives of their own, to find meaningful work, to make a difference. Follow these stubborn, can-do optimists as they navigate the turbulence of the sixties and early seventies, confront crisis (divorce, sickness, getting fired), and build lives and careers, charting new territory for women in the professions.

It's Good To Be a Woman is Alison Baker's second book, following
Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women.

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“Alison Baker's engaging book about the lives of women from the class of '62 at her alma mater, Bryn Mawr, captures well the naivete of intelligent, highly educated young women about to unwittingly live through, and in some cases occasion, revolutionary changes in their own lives and in those of their generation and those that followed. The individual stories make clear that these were exciting times, but the gains for women didn't happen without considerable heartache for some and the need for many to learn to act courageously in asserting their individuality both on the home front and in the work place. In most cases these very able women have led productive, generous, and finally, very satisfying lives. Their humor and their resilience, as well as their many successes are well detailed. This is a good book for women who graduated from college and university in the last twenty years to read--much that is available for them was of course hard won by others, who actually, it is clear in this very readable book, rather enjoyed the challenge.”
— Mary Patterson McPherson, President Emeritus Bryn Mawr College
“With a genius for listening and asking, Alison Baker recorded the back stories of coup-plotting, bomb-planting women revolutionaries in Morocco. Now Voices of Resistance Baker has collected the stories of some other revolutionaries--her Bryn Mawr classmates. The explosions are muffled and closer in, but the impact for change is equally profound. I thought I knew some of these women; I didn't know them at all. Parallel lives.”
— Alan Armstrong, Haverford College, class of '61
 “The immediacy, spontaneity, and openness of these oral history interviews are a testimony to the intelligence and empathy with which Alison Baker has ‘listened’ to the stories. Oral history is a dynamic and interactive process and the author has used the possibilities of the genre to bring us unforgettable narratives of courage and perseverance.”

— Mahnaz Afkhami, Director, Sisterhood Is Global Institute and editor of Faith and Freedom: Women’s Rights in the Muslim World.

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