{"product_id":"this-is-not-the-ivy-league-paperback","title":"This Is Not the Ivy League - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Clearman Blew\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary 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. \u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Clearman Blew is the author of the acclaimed essay collection \u003ci\u003eAll but the Waltz\u003c\/i\u003e and the memoir \u003ci\u003eBalsamroot\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eWhen Montana and I Were Young: A Memoir of a Frontier Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e, available in a Bison Books edition. Her most recent novel, \u003ci\u003eJackalope Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, is also available in a Bison Books edition. She is a professor of English at the University of Idaho and has twice won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, once in fiction and once in nonfiction. She is also the winner of a Western Heritage Award and the Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 226\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8.45 x 5.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53053865099488,"sku":"9780803245204","price":22.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/Ye7E0Pm0C49780803245204.webp?v=1781287532","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/this-is-not-the-ivy-league-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}