Sandra Schackel

Apron to Cap & Gown (eBook, ePUB)

Teen Bride to Scholar, 1950s-1970s

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Suddenly, I thought: There must be some other way to be married.

This powerful epiphany underpins Schackel's journey from a 1950s teen wife and mom living through second-wave feminism-a cultural tremor that would shake up the way women in the 1960s and '70s viewed their lives and identity. The author married her teenage boyfriend and gave birth to their first child before she graduated high school. At a time and an age when youngsters typically dream of their destinies, Sandy's focus shifted automatically to her husband's and children's futures. Like many women, her future-her identity-became obscured. This memoir paints her long and difficult journey toward recovering what was lost and restoring her full sense of self, and the crucial element of her continuing education in helping her succeed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Burgett Sisters Books
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798218538521
• Artikelnr.: 75063335

Autorenporträt

Sandra Schackel grew up happily in a small, Midwestern town. Marrying and becoming a mom at age seventeen shaped her identity over the next three decades. Education proved to be the lifeline enabling her to reclaim her own dreams. She retired in 2010 as Emerita Professor, Boise State University, where she taught American Women's History and History of the American West for twenty-one years. During this period she published on twentieth-century women's lives, including Working the Land: Stories of Ranch and Farm Women in the Modern American West, based on oral histories from women in six Western states. With Apron to Gown, she moved from recording other women's journeys to writing her own life story. Today she hikes, bikes, skis, and thrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.