The Education of Girls

Coming of age in 4 years that changed America

1966-1970

is a memoir, an unapologetic, unfiltered chronicle of how a small women's college in Massachusetts, Wellesley College, became engulfed in a social revolution.

A must-read for every woman, mother and every grand-daughter who asks:

What did you do when everything was changing back in the '60s?

Stephanie’s book brought me right back to Davis Hall and those heady days on Wellesley’s campus, finding feminism and our political will. A rich and stirring history of a moment when everything was changing for women in higher education."

-Hillary Rodham Clinton

Imagine a country at war. Your boyfriend taken for the draft. Sent far away to an unknown country, Vietnam. A government heedless of protest. Living in a place where birth control for single women is illegal.

I am seventeen years old. Newly arrived at smart Wellesley College. It is 1966, the eve of a convulsive time. Hillary Clinton lives across the hall. Henry Kissinger and John Kenneth Galbraith are teaching at Harvard. I am in a crucible of clever young women, demure, conservative and gently reared; a tiny and elite minority of girls. Back then a mere 7.4% of women went to university.

This is our story of how the Vietnam war, racial strife and the birth of women’s liberation fundamentally changed our lives, leading us to become very different women than the ones we were expected to be.

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