Let me try my hand at one of those conditionals: If Alcott has always been interested in how people bargain with forces bigger than them, then Emergency is about what happens when women bet against themselves; when women use their own autonomy as a bargaining chip in a wager that might gain them some power within a system inherently built against them.
BENNINGTON In a day of emotional moments, 10 men donned the blue graduation gowns of Bennington College earlier this month and walked across a gym floor to receive their