Sweet Bananas

Sweet Bananas

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Sweet Bananas

1973

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“Sweet Bananas traces the contrasting lives of some working class and upper class women, who end up all getting along.” -- E. Ann Kaplan

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6 members

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Rita Francoeur

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Victoria Larrain

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Ann Taylor

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Kitty LePerrier

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Selma Greenberg

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Weba Garretson

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