I Rode the Second Wave - Abrams, Fran
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I Rode the Second Wave: A Feminist Memoir is an autobiographical story told in poetry through the eyes of a woman whose life paralleled the second wave of feminism, a movement that began in the 1960's and focused on equal opportunities and equal pay for women. The second wave changed the expectations of women from the homemakers of the 1950's to career women. The author was a freshman in college in 1962 determined to enter the workforce in a professional position. After completing her graduate degree in 1969, she was rebuffed in job interviews by men who assumed she would leave her job soon…mehr

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I Rode the Second Wave: A Feminist Memoir is an autobiographical story told in poetry through the eyes of a woman whose life paralleled the second wave of feminism, a movement that began in the 1960's and focused on equal opportunities and equal pay for women. The second wave changed the expectations of women from the homemakers of the 1950's to career women. The author was a freshman in college in 1962 determined to enter the workforce in a professional position. After completing her graduate degree in 1969, she was rebuffed in job interviews by men who assumed she would leave her job soon after she married and had children. She accepted a job in an office where she was the only professional woman. She married in 1970, had her first child in 1976 and her second in 1984. She worked for 41 years, retiring in 2010. Placing her story in the context of women's marches and feminist goals, the author tells how she grew up in a world that expected women to become homemakers and how she combined her desire for a professional career with marriage and motherhood at a time when mothers with careers were just starting to be accepted in our culture.
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Fran Abrams lives in Rockville, MD. Her poems have been published online and in print in Cathexis-Northwest Press, The American Journal of Poetry, MacQueen's Quinterly Literary Magazine, The Raven's Perch, Gargoyle, and many others. Her poems also appear in more than a dozen anthologies. In December 2021, she won the Washington Writers Publishing House Winter Poetry Prize for her poem titled "Waiting for Snow." In July 2022, her poem "Arranging Words" was a finalist in the 2022 Prime Number Magazine Award for Poetry. Her autobiographical book of poems, titled I Rode the Second Wave: A Feminist Memoir, was published in 2022 by Atmosphere Press. Her first chapbook, The Poet Who Loves Pythagoras, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2023. Please visit www.franabramspoetry.com for more.