Berriualt, Gina, The Lights of Earth, North Point Press, 1984.

Because little biographical information on the author is available, readers interested in Berriault's life may want to read this semi-autobiographical novel. The novel centers on a San Francisco writer struggling with loss and grief.

Dickstein, Morris, Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties, 2d ed., Harvard University Press, 1999.

Dickstein characterizes the youth culture's drive to experience the world in a new way and analyses a number of important sixties icons. This sophisticated yet readable study of the period was nominated for the National Book Critics Award.

Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Deirdre English, Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness, Feminist Press, 1991.

Ehrenreich and English consider the relationship between medical and social views of women, arguing that medicine reflects gender oppression. This work of sociology is quite accessible to general readers.

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