This book is is a group biography of three women’s friendships forged in second-wave feminism. Nancy Miller describes her friendships with three well-known scholars and literary critics: Carolyn Heilbrun, Diane Middlebrook, and Naomi Schor. Their relationships were simultaneously intimate and professional, emotional and intellectual, animated by the ferment of the women’s movement. The stories of their intertwined lives and books embody feminism’s belief in the political importance of personal experience