A powerful exploration of what a womancanbe when what sheshouldbe is no longer an optionIn late 1970 Oliver Desmarais drops dead in his front yard while hanging Christmas lights. In the year that follows his widow Virginia struggles to find her place on the campus of the elite New Hampshire mens college where Oliver was a professor. While Virginia had alwaA powerful exploration of what a womancanbe when what sheshouldbe is no longer an optionIn late 1970 Oliver Desmarais drops dead in his front yard while hanging Christmas lights. In the year that follows his widow Virginia struggles to find her place on the campus of the elite New Hampshire mens college where Oliver was a professor. While Virginia had always shared her husbands prejudices against the four outspoken never-married women on the faculty—dubbed the Gang of Four by their male counterparts—she now finds herself depending on them even joining their work to bring the womens movement to Clarendon College.Soon though reports of violent protests across the country reach this sleepy New England town stirring tensions between the fraternal establishment of Clarendon and those calling for change. As authorities attempt to tamp down “radical elements” Virginia must decide whether shes willing to put herself and her family at risk for a cause that had never felt like her own.Told through alternating perspectives The Wrong Kind of Woman is an engrossing story about finding the strength to forge new paths beautifully woven against the rapid changes of the early Ô70s.(less)