In the CPTV original documentary, The 60s in Connecticut, producers spent over a hundred hours interviewing subjects for the film. Since the documentary can only include small portions of each interview, we are making the full interviews available on-line. The 60s in Connecticutcan be seen on May 9, at 9:30 PM on CPTV.
The above interview with Gina Barreca, humorist, feminist and professor of English was shot in the Fall of 2010. In the interview, Ms. Barreca shares her memories of growing up in the 60s with her signature humor and pragmatism. She reflects on everything from “Laugh In” to nuclear threat, from the fashion model Twiggy to the rise of feminism. “Girls who were coming of age as I was in the 60s were given an enormous amount of freedom in the way that our ‘Fore-broads,’ as some women have said, our ‘Fore-mothers’ were not able to do.”
As the very first in her family to go to college and one of the first females admitted to Dartmouth, Gina shares her personal stories about the radical shift in how women viewed themselves and their place in contemporary society. She humorously reminisces about the television shows of the 1960s such as That Girl, starring Marlo Thomas, and how they too reflected the changes in societal norms that are rooted in the iconic decade of the 60s.
Gina portrays the 1960’s from the perspective of both a feminist and a humorist. Her story reveals the comical truths about the 1960’s as well as the stark realities. See Gina and many others in the CPTV documentary The 60’s in Connecticut.