Glimmering girls

by Merrill Joan Gerber

Tells the story of three extraordinary American women during a time of sexual and cultural repression. Francie and her friends Liz and Amanda are college students, coming of age intellectually, emotionally, and physically in a setting where men were forbidden entry to women's dorm rooms and women were locked into these rooms after curfew. College life for women was governed by one simple cardinal rule: Marry Before Graduation or Be Lost Forever. Francie and friends, however, resist their appointed futures and rebel. They begin the real-world education of pursuing their dreams at a time when their entire culture seemed arrayed against them.