All the lost girls
All the lost girls: confessions of a Southern daughter Patricia Foster
Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2000.
ISBN: 0817310479
DDC: 976.1063092
LCC: CT275
Edition: (alk. paper)
Summary:
"Patricia Foster's memoir weaves together the life of a mother and
daughter caught in the web of that mother's ambition. The mother,
intelligent and driven, but trapped by a heartbreaking secret, is
determined that her daughters receive the training that will
guarantee their success as professional women. Foster and her sister
are brought up as "honorary boys," girls with the ambition of men but
the temperament of women, in rural south Alabama in the 1950s and
1960s." "Foster's desire is to please her mother, but by the time she
reaches age fifteen, her efforts to reconcile the contradictory
expectations that she be both ambitious and restrained leave her
nervous and needy even as she cultivates the appearance of the model
student, sister, and daughter. All the Lost Girls charts the
difficult unraveling the narrator must do to achieve understanding
and autonomy."--BOOK JACKET.
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