{"product_id":"9798888450048","title":"Outside Voices","description":"Author: Joan Gelfand\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9798888450048\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Post Hill Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 20 Mar 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 256 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBerkeley, 1972: a hotbed of creativity where painters, filmmakers, musicians, and writers inspire a young poet.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNYC Big Book Award: Winner in New Adult Non-fiction\u003cbr\u003e\n\n NYC Big Book Award: Distinguished Favorite in Women’s Issues\u003cbr\u003e\n\n International Book Award Winner in U.S. History\u003cbr\u003e\n\n Literary Titan Winner\u003cbr\u003e\n\n Finalist in the San Francisco Bookfest\u003cbr\u003e\n\n Runner Up in the New York City Bookfest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n Second-wave feminism, inspired by Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, and Betty Friedan is swelling into a tsunami. Women are joining together to change power dynamics in politics, the home, and the workplace.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n On election day, Joan Gelfand casts her vote for George McGovern and boards a plane from New York to California. With one introduction to a woman musician, Joan’s journey to become a writer is born. Embraced by a thriving women’s community of artists, filmmakers, musicians, poets, and writers, Joan is encouraged to find her voice.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n Mentored by paradigm-changing writers, Joan finds the courage to face her darkest fears through poetry and art, mining the trauma she experienced after losing her father and questioning her Jewish identity. Reminiscent of Paris in the twenties, Greenwich Village in the sixties, and Berlin in the eighties, Berkeley in the seventies was the “it” city of America.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eOutside Voices\u003c\/i\u003e reports the ups and downs of finding one’s way as an artist, living with a women’s band, forging an independent Jewish identity, founding a women’s restaurant, and becoming a published writer and songwriter while exploring the limits of sexuality and spirituality. The story includes road trips to music festivals in the woods, beaches in Mexico, concerts in Southern California, and a retreat in the Pacific Northwest.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n A triumphant story of determination and will, \u003ci\u003eOutside Voices\u003c\/i\u003e is a backstage look at the women’s movement that sets the stage for decades of change. This book is a firsthand look at how the power of community emboldened innovation, social change, and self-discovery.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46601214525598,"sku":"HPC-9798888450048","price":44.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9798888450048.jpg?v=1773293791","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9798888450048","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}