The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History
The Equivalents is a 2020 group biography by Maggie Doherty about five women artists and writers, including Anne Sexton, Maxine Kumin and Tillie Olsen, who were fellows at the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study in the early 1960s. It traces their friendships and rivalries, and how the institute's support shaped their work and the women's movement that followed.
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- Margaret Atwood: “What has changed for women over 60 years, what remains the same and what is worse? Was all that struggle and angst and creative turmoil for nothing? Maggie Doherty doesn't think so, and neither do I.”