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Easy Homeschooling Techniques: The REAL How-To Guide
Lorraine Curry
"Bite-size, manageable chapters bursting with information.... something for everyone." - Shari Henry, author of Homeschooling: The Middle Years
EAT FIRST--YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'LL GIVE YOU, written with warmth and humor, is the story of Sonia Pressman Fuentes, one of the pioneers of the Second Wave of the women's movement, and her family.
Fuentes was born in Berlin, Germany, of Polish parents, with whom she came to the U.S. as a child to escape the Holocaust. Her memoir reveals how this five-year-old immigrant in 1934 grew up to become the first woman attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 1965, one of the founders of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966, the highest-paid woman at the headquarters of two multinational corporations--GTE and TRW, and an international speaker on women's rights for the U.S. Information Agency.
The story begins with the wedding of Fuentes' parents, Hinda and Zysia Pressman, in Piltz, a town in Poland. It goes on to the adventures of the Pressmans and Fuentes in Berlin, Antwerp, the Bronx, the Catskills, Miami Beach, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Stamford (Connecticut), and Washington, D.C. Along the way, Fuentes had encounters with Pat Ward (a notorious call girl in the '50s), Betty Friedan, Harry Golden, Dr. Cecil Jacobson (a prominent geneticist convicted on 52 counts of perjury and fraud), and many others.
At forty-two, she married a man from Puerto Rico and 1 1/2 years later, her Puerto Rican-Jewish daughter was born. She tells about it all in "Eat First."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sonia Pressman Fuentes graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University in1950 and first in her class at the University of Miami School of Law in 1957. She had a 36-year career as an attorney and executive with the federal government and multinational corporations. She drafted many of the EEOC's initial landmark guidelines and decisions. In addition to being one of the founders of NOW, she was also a founder of Federally Employed Women (FEW). In November 1966, Betty Friedan presented her with the Veteran Feminists of America (VFA) Medal of Honor in recognition of her work to improve the status of women.
Currently, she serves on the Board of Trustees of the National Woman's Party (NWP) and on the advisory committee of the Veteran Feminists of America. Since her retirement in 1993, she has pursued an active career as a writer and public speaker.
On October 10, 1999, Fuentes received the 1999 Women at Work Award given by Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) in Washington, D.C. Prior awardees include Glenn Close, Jane Fonda, Katie Couric, and Hillary Rodham Clinton. On March 21, 2000, Fuentes was one of five women inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame for the year 2000. Later that year, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees included Fuentes in its Gallery of Prominent Refugees. She is included in "Women of Achievement in Maryland History," published in October 2002. Her article on how being an immigrant affected her life is included in "120 HIAS Stories," published in July 2002. She will be included in an exhibit of the Jewish Women's Archive on 87 women who improved women's status in the U.S. to go online in June 2005.
I walk in the footprints of Sonia Pressman Fuentes. Patricia Ireland, then-president, NOW
Evoking a tear here and a chuckle there, with her heartwarming wit and wisdom, Sonia Pressman Fuentes recounts the story of a Jewish family, her family, from her grandparents' origin in a shtetl in Poland right through her own career as a founder of NOW and beyond.
Gus Tyler, columnist, contributing editor, "The Forward"
Sonia Pressman Fuentes played a major role in the birth of the new women's movement and her tales of its early days will delight historians and those who are curious about the beginnings of this great social movement. Fuentes is a born storyteller, with a particular knack for seeing the humorous aspects of her life.
Dr. Bernice Sandler, Senior Scholar, Women's Research and Education Institute
I referred to you just the other day (as I frequently do) as one of the "great, unsung heroes" of the women's and civil rights movements. You single-handedly persuaded Roosevelt, Edelsberg, me and others to take sex discrimination seriously, which, without you, we would not have done.
Charles T. Duncan, former General Counsel, EEOC; former Corporation Counsel of the District of Columbia; former Dean, Howard University School of Law
"Eat First was required reading" for courses at Cornell University and American University.
The book was published in paperback and hardback by Xlibris Corporation and as an e-book for downloading (purchase information available on Fuentes' web site). It is also available from amazon.com and in the U.K. from amazon.co.uk.
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