Sisters

Sophie Dymond had overcome 19th century prejudices to succeed as publisher of a hugely popular woman's magazine. But when she left New York to visit her native Wyoming, where her sister had died mysteriously, she left her prestige and power far behind. Waiting for Sophie was a world where women were treated as decorative figurines or as abject sexual vassals...where wives were led to despise the marriage act and prostitutes pandered to husbands' hungers... where relationship between women and men became a kind of guerilla warfare in which women were forced to band together for the strength they needed and at times for the love they wanted. In her effort to grasp the meaning of her sister's life and death, Sophie discovers the secret that tainted her life and begins to understand the experience of the vast majority of silent, trapped women.Cheney, Lynne V. is the author of 'Sisters', published 2004 under ISBN 9780451214201 and ISBN 045121420X.