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appreciate this book for what it tried to speak up for at the time it was published, and for the time period it traversed on.
But the narration and conversation between characters of this book was dry and callous, I've read other RMB books and i enjoyed her sarcasm and wit, which was missing in this novel, Nonetheless, i have my personal notes throughout the book because i agree in most parts, I find feminism in my day misdirected, And there are a lot of Ilse's in the movement who dont even know what they are as people so i dont feel justified to hve them represent me my group Not one of my favorites, but good none the less.
daughters inc. I enjoyed this one, though it wasn't as revolutionary as sitelink Rubyfruit Jungle, It was an interesting exploration of the dynamic between a younger woman devoted to the feminist movement and an older woman who wanted no part of it.
Definitely worth reading. Another one I read for uni last term but this one I absolutely hated! It was so so weird and the narrative just felt like an excuse for the characters to talk to each other about feminism albeit a very narrow minded and limited view on it.
I loved this book! My second Rita Mae Brown read, I thought her characters and development have matured greatly without losing the adventurous spirit of "Rubyfruit Jungle.
" This book often made me smile and laugh out loud, in part because of the amusing situations the characters find themselves in, but more often because of the witty, tongueincheek dialogue.
As a young queer in an "ageinappropriate" relationship myself, I appreciated the take Brown has on this lesbian couple,years apart in age.
And Brown's note to "nonfeminists" in the forward sets the whole novel off with a bang! I found In Her Day to be rather clunky.
The narrative if you can really call it that is merely an excuse to have characters talk at each other about what feminism means, what it

should be doing, what it should be achieving, how it should be achieving, who should be included and excluded and what should the movement look like.
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These are all great ideas and great areas of debate and interest, And in fact remain highly relevant to feminism in thest Century, . . But does this make a novel

It's unfortunate because I actually loved Carole there's something rather deliciously Miranda Priestly about her, and I found her life, her loves and her experience as a highacheiving gay academic to be incredibly interesting and deserving of more exploration.


Instead the novel centers on a relationshipofsorts that seems to revolve around arguing about feminism and then fucking the young and indignant Isle.
There was no real exploration of their romance, no real insight into how they support and look after each other the way people in relationships do.
Their relationship became the basis of a whirlwind exchange of ideas and feminist debate that would have been much better suited in an essay, or as a short story as a means of introducing some ideas about feminism.


That's not to say there aren't good bits, there are, And it's also not to say that the feminism isn't also good, it just sits very clunkliy within a weak narrative that simply cannot shoulder the might of the debates and themes occurring.
I wish I could give it, It was interesting to read a story about a group of lesbians in the throws of or on the margins of the women's movement but I take serious issue with how she addresses or doesn't really address ethnicity.
Not as enjoyable a read as some of other books, and a little bit of a step down from Rubyfruit Jungle, which she had published three years earlier.
It was still interesting to read about the women's movement in general and the lesbian movement in particular, from the mids.
I was aboutwhen this book was published, and I had no clue about all that stuff, I knew there was a women's movment, of course my Dad took every opportunity to ridicule it, and the church I belonged to was officially against it and used to call it evil.
Thank god I didn't absorb those belief systems I was raised withyears ago,.
I enjoyed myself a lot while reading this novel, Not because it is crafted that well, because it is not, but because it discussed important and interesting topics in its historical context.
That is why I love Rita Mae Brown's novels, not for her writing style, but for what she writes about.
Somehow the magic of Rubyfruit Jungle amp her earlier novels with lesbian characters is not in this novel for me.
BUT I did find her introductory notes worth reading a not so hot book:

"NOTE TO THE FEMINIST READER: In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be.
Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal,

NOTE TO THE NONFEMINIST READER: What's wrong with you"

And let's just say I read most of this novel.
. . Although it could be easy to dismiss this book by an outspoken lesbian, feminist author as a book with limited appeal, I found it to be truly engaging.
The intellectual discussions concerning activism between Isle and Carole were fantastic and the book never plods along, Really just great. RMB's thoughts on the women's movement etc would probably have made a better essay than they did a novel.
The characters seem puppeteered to parrot her thoughts, and as a result end up sounding unrealistic, Plus, the Goldene Zeiten's overall love for the rational which Brown rejects, at least partially, in the latterday introduction results in a constant stream of upfront information and character thought processes, with very little time given to feelings, or to showing without telling.
Less analysis, por favor at least in fiction. interesting perspective ons feminist movement, not my favorite rmb but worth reading, i feel like i could read these early rita mae brown novels forever, they're kind of my goto vacation reads, empty but fun, hokey but real, there's always a really vivid world w/ some characters who come amp go without you caring much, good bad tv. the world really is this corny so you can't blame her for all the puns amp melodrama Pending, read ityears ago. would have to read it again to remember For years a "lost" collector's item,  here is the second novel from a brilliant young  author testing her literary muscle, and it's bursting  at the seams with Rita Mae Brown's trademark cast  of characters and crackling quips.
Written  immediately after her classic Rubyfruit  Jungle, In Her Day takes a  loving swipe at the charged political atmosphere of  Greenwich Village in the early seventies.
Elegant  art history professor Carole Hanratty insists  brains transcend lustuntil she crashes into Ilse, a  revolutionary feminist flush with the arrogance of  youth.
Blazing with rhetoric, their romance is a  sexual and ideological inferno, Ilse campaigns to  get Carole to join The Movement, but  fortyfouryearold Carole and her zany peers have twenty years  of fight behind them and are wary of causes bogged  down in talk.
After all, says Carole's best  friend, the real reason for a revolution is so the good  things in life circulate.
Her idea of subversion  is hiring a RollsRoyce to go to  McDonald's, In Her Day, with its infectious  merriment and serious underpinnings, proves that if  politics is the great divider, humor is the ultimate  restorative.
Rita Mae Brown is a prolific American writer, most known for her mysteries and other novels Rubyfruit Jungle.
She is also an Emmy nominated screenwriter, Brown was born illegitimate in Hanover, Pennsylvania, She was raised by her biological mothers female cousin and the cousins husband in York, Pennsylvania and later in Ft.
Lauderdale, Florida. Starting in the fall of, Brown attended the University of Florida at Gainesville on a scholarship, In the spring of, the administrators of the racially segregated university expelled her for participating in the civil rights movement.
She subsequently enrolled at Broward Community Collegewith the hope of transferring eventually to a tolerant four year institution.
Between fallRita Mae Brown is a prolific American writer, most known for her mysteries and other novels Rubyfruit Jungle.
She is also an Emmy nominated screenwriter, Brown was born illegitimate in Hanover, Pennsylvania, She was raised by her biological mother's female cousin and the cousin's husband in York, Pennsylvania and later in Ft.
Lauderdale, Florida. Starting in the fall of, Brown attended the University of Florida at Gainesville on a scholarship, In the spring of, the administrators of the racially segregated university expelled her for participating in the civil rights movement.
She subsequently enrolled at Broward Community Collegewith the hope of transferring eventually to a tolerant four year institution.
Between falland, she lived in New York City, sometimes homeless, while attending New York Universitywhere she received a degree in Classics and English.
Later,when she received another degree in cinematography from the New York School of Visual Arts, citation needed Brown received a Ph, D. in literature from Union Institute University inand holds a doctorate in political science from the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.
C. Starting in, Brown lived in the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles, In, she bought a farm in Charlottesville, Virginia where she still lives,In, a screenplay Brown wrote while living in Los Angeles, Sleepless Nights, was retitled The Slumber Party Massacre and given a limited release theatrically.
During Brown's springsemester at the University of Florida at Gainesville, she became active in the American Civil Rights Movement.
Later in thes, she participated in the anti war movement, the feminist movement and the Gay Liberation movement.
Brown took an administrative position with the fledgling National Organization for Women, but resigned in Januaryover Betty Friedan's anti gay remarks and NOW's attempts to distance itself from lesbian organizations.
She claims she played a leading role in the "Lavender Menace" zap of the Second Congress to Unite Women on May,, which protested Friedan's remarks and the exclusion of lesbians from the women's movement.
In the earlys, she became a founding member of The Furies Collective, a lesbian feminist newspaper collective in Washington, DC, which held that heterosexuality was the root of all oppression.
Brown told Time magazine in, "I don't believe in straight or gay, I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual, There may be a few people on the extreme if it's a bell curve who really truly are gay or really truly are straight.
Because nobody had ever said these things and used their real name, I suddenly became in the lates the only lesbian in America.
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