This Is Not the Ivy League (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780803230118)

Mary Clearman Blew's education began at home, on a remote cattle ranch in Montana. She graduated to a one-room rural school, then escaped, via scholarship, to the University of Montana, where, still in her teens, she met and married her first husband. This Is Not the Ivy League is her account of what it was to be that girl, and then that woman--pressured by husband and parents to be the conventional wife of the 1950s, persisting in her pursuit of an education, trailed by a reluctant husband and small children through graduate school, and finally entering the job market with a PhD in English only to find a whole new set of pressures and prejudices.
This memoir is Blew's behind-the-scenes account of pursuing a career at a time when a woman's place in the world was supposed to have limits. It is a story of both the narrowing perspective of the social norm and the ever-expanding possibilities of a woman who refuses to be told what she can and cannot be.

Author: Mary Clearman Blew
ISBN-10: 0803230117
ISBN-13: 9780803230118
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2011
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2011
New York Times Book Review 09/04/2011 pg. 8