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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Loewenstein, Laurie.     Subjects     Feminists -- New York (State) -- Chautauqua -- Fiction.     Newspaper editors -- New York (State) -- Chautauqua -- Fiction.     Man-woman relationships -- New York (State) -- Chautauqua -- Fiction.     Chautauqua (N.Y.) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Loewenstein, Laurie.       by title:      Unmentionables / by ...         MARC Display

Unmentionables / by Laurie Loewenstein. by Loewenstein, Laurie. New York : Akashic Books, c2014. Subjects Feminists -- New York (State) -- Chautauqua -- Fiction.   Newspaper editors -- New York (State) -- Chautauqua -- Fiction.   Man-woman relationships -- New York (State) -- Chautauqua -- Fiction.   Chautauqua (N.Y.) -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781617751943 (pbk.) : 1617751944 (pbk.) Description:  307 p. ; 21 cm. Requests:  0 Summary:  Marian Elliott Adams, an outspoken advocate for sensible undergarments for women, sweeps onto the Chautauqua stage under a brown canvas tent on a sweltering August night in 1917, and shocks the gathered town of Emporia with her speech: How can women compete with men in the work place and in life if they are confined by their undergarments? The crowd is further appalled when Marian falls off the stage and sprains her ankle, and is forced to remain among them for a week. As the week passes, she throws into turmoil the town's unspoken rules governing social order, women, and Negroes. The recently widowed newspaper editor Deuce Garland, his lapels glittering with fraternal pins, has always been a community booster, his desire to conform rooted in a legacy of shame--his great-grandfather married a black woman, and the town will never let Deuce forget it, especially not his father-in-law, the owner of the newspaper and Deuce's boss. Deuce and his father-in-law are already at odds, since the old man refuses to allow Deuce's stepdaughter, Helen, to go to Chicago to fight for women's suffrage. But Marian's arrival shatters Deuce's notions of what is acceptable, versus what is right, and Deuce falls madly in love with the tall activist from New York. During Marian's stay in Emporia, Marian pushes Deuce to become a greater, braver, and more dynamic man than he ever imagined was possible. He takes a stand against his father-in-law by helping Helen escape to Chicago; and he publishes an article exposing the county's oldest farm family as the source of a recent typhoid outbreak, risking his livelihood and reputation. Marian's journey takes her to the frozen mud of France's Picardy region, just beyond the lines, to help destitute villagers as the Great War rages on. Helen, in Chicago, is hired as a streetcar conductor surrounded by bitter men who resent her taking a man's job. Meanwhile, Deuce struggles to make a living and find his place in Emporia's wider community after losing the newspaper.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Ewa Beach P/S Library Adult Fiction Loewenstein Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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