Braided Lives Author:marge Piercy America in the fifties meant McCarthyism and Ban the bomb, jitterbug and jazz, girls in padded breas and clinging pastel twin-sets - but that was not all... — In this story of the women who liberated us into the seventies, Marge Piercy recreates the fear and tensions that lay beneath the surface. Funny, angry and acidly entertaining, she writes o... more »f Jill, independant, streetwise and of her cousin and closest friend Donna - braiding lives before the Women's Movement, making love before the Pill.« less