These Walls Between Us: A Memoir of Friendship Across Race and Class

In These Walls Between Us established feminist author Wendy Sanford, who is white, reflects on her complex lifelong friendship with Mary Norman, who is Black-exploring her formation in a narrow world of class and race privilege, lifting up the writings and social movements that changed her views and her life, and examining a sixty-year interracial friendship that evolved in the context of white supremacy.About the AuthorSanford, Wendy: - Wendy Sanford grew up in an upper-middle-class white suburban family in Princeton, New Jersey, and attended private schools throughout her life. During the socially turbulent time of the 1970s, she became a feminist, a lesbian, and a Quaker. A founding member of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Wendy coauthored and edited many versions of the women's health and sexuality classic Our Bodies, Ourselves from 1973 to 2011. In seminary at Harvard Divinity School in the '80s, she began to read works of women of color as "devotional reading," to rem