{"product_id":"this-is-not-the-ivy-league","title":"This Is not the Ivy League","description":"Mary Clearman Blew’s education began at home, on a remote cattle ranch in Montana. She graduated to a one-room rural school, then escaped, via scholarship, to the University of Montana, where, still in her teens, she met and married her first husband. \u003ci\u003eThis Is Not the Ivy League\u003c\/i\u003e is her account of what it was to be that girl, and then that woman-pressured by husband and parents to be the conventional wife of the 1950s, persisting in her pursuit of an education, trailed by a reluctant husband and small children through graduate school, and finally entering the job market with a PhD in English only to find a whole new set of pressures and prejudices.   This memoir is Blew’s behind-the-scenes account of pursuing a career at a time when a woman’s place in the world was supposed to have limits. It is a story of both the narrowing perspective of the social norm and the ever-expanding possibilities of a woman who refuses to be told what she can and cannot be.","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54230998155608,"sku":"9780803245204","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780803245204.jpg?v=1777175136","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/this-is-not-the-ivy-league","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}