Gail Sheehy’s Passages. I’d read it in my twenties, when it was a big bestseller, but I just couldn’t connect with it then. This time, I understood what Sheehy was talking about—me! Her research found that women who grew up in the 1950s, before women had some independence, didn’t have female role models to look up to, so they chose to be like the men they admired most.
