As If Women Mattered

As If Women Mattered
Virginia DeLuca
1972. A time of war and Watergate, of Ms. Magazine and consciousness raising. As the post-World War II era of peace, prosperity, and pointy bras gives way to the life-expanding changes of the women’s movement, four women meet. Over twenty years the friends thrive, with humor and irreverence, as they each struggle to reconcile the realities of adult life with the expectations of youth.
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About the Author

Virginia DeLuca has published short stories in The Iowa Review and Currents Anthology, and has won several prizes for fiction, including the Seacoast Writing Association and the 2011 Pirates Alley William Faulkner Wisdom Competition. She coauthored the nonfiction book, Couples With Children, and has contributed articles about parenting to various magazines.
Ms. DeLuca is currently the director of a violent-offender program in Maine. Throughout her career, she has worked primarily in violence prevention and intervention, assisting women of all ages as they struggle to change circumstances in their lives. This work informs her novel.