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Highly valuable book, even if you're not a self-help type
I was just out of college when my friend's mother gave me this book.My friend and I rolled our eyes - we were *definitely* not self-help-book readers.I still am not.But many times over the past ten years I have referenced this book in conversations with friends. I have found myself applying many of the tips that Ms. White provides. You don't have to be a hyper-ambitious, ladder-climbing corporate professional to get something out of this book. Among the tenets that have stood out to me over the years are:
Enjoyed, learned but read it all with a grain of salt!
I have never believed, or wanted to believe, in the feminist views of the world. I like to believe that if we focus on results, deliverables, and excellent performance and good merit, we will indeed get ahead - man or woman - in corporate america. Reading this book however did have certain advice in handling some situations that only arise for women in the workplace. Not every bit of advice or circumstance applies to all of us, but overall, this was a very good read, I took bits and pieces of advice from Kate and really did enjoy her stories and her candid sharing of the experience she had been through. I really do recommend it to everyone - not just women. It's good to be aware of our ingrained beliefs and learn to let go of them and face life with a much more open mind.

People Pleasing is not the way to go
This is the golden advice: people pleasing is distinct from delivering credible results. In the world of world it is being respected that wins the day. Being liked is a matter of fickleness and not based on results. Results that are measured are all that matters. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Assertiveness in women    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business Life - General    5. Businesswomen    6. Career development    7. Career/Job    8. Careers - General    9. Case studies    10. Success in business    11. Women & Business    12. Business & Economics / Careers    13. Management & management techniques    14. Women's studies   

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knowing about knowing
this is by far the best book on epistemology -- how people decide what knowledge is, and how they go about getting it -- that i have ever encountered.when i was in graduate school, i started studying epistemology by accident.i'd planned to research how people learned physics, but i ended up baffled by many of my students.how *did* those people think??this book clarified that for me, by extensively documenting a variety of ways in which people thought about knowledge, and presenting their classifications with excellent documentation and a wholesome level of respect.
A fascinating look at the psychology of the female mind.
Building on the work of previous psychologists interested in the study of the female mind, Mary Belenky and her colleagues have conducted interviews with a sample of 135 women enrolled in various teaching institutions (whether it be a university, community college, or some other institution such as a clinic to aid parents). The authors looked for patterns in the responses they received, and were able to draw together a concept of how women deal with knowledge.
Nothing here about Knowing
If this book represents the level of academic excellence women bring to social studies, the feminist movement has just been set back a generation.Basing their analysis [if it can be called that] on but 135 women, all of them from the United States, they come to the conclusion that wimmen have a special way of knowing.Knowing what?Oppressive parents, demanding management, demands for academic competence?Where do these four get the idea that these experiences are unique to women?Men in their various endeavours experience identical fears from identical sources.Parents have different values than your generation?Welcome to the club. Your boss demands that you accomplish tasks in an unreasonable amount of time?How much midnight oil have any of us burned to complete an irrational deadline?Read more

Subjects:  1. Education    2. General    3. Psychology    4. Self-actualization (Psychology)    5. Self-realization    6. Sociology    7. United States    8. Women    9. Women's Studies - General    10. Feminism   

Editorial Review

Essayist and cultural critic Barbara Ehrenreich has always specialized in turning received wisdom on its head with intelligence, clarity, and verve. With some 12 million women being pushed into the labor market by welfare reform, she decided to do some good old-fashioned journalism and find out just how they were going to survive on the wages of the unskilled--at $6 to $7 an hour, only half of what is considered a living wage. So she did what millions of Americans do, she looked for a job and a place to live, worked that job, and tried to make ends meet. Read more

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Next week on The Simple Life, Barb joins Paris and Nicole for shift work at the local Wallyworld!
She Made It Even Harder To Get By
Ehrenreich is the kind of journalist I despise. One who thinks her insights are so important that it doesn't matter how much she inconveniences others to make her point.
Bring your own grain of salt.
This is not a bad book, but it's not a good one. Although I certainly gained some insight from reading this book, I was disappointed (and surprised) by Ms. Ehrenreich's (or the editor's?) lack of fact-checking/ attention to detail, and/or embellishment.
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Foundational Work in Gender History
Joan Scott's "Gender and the Politics of History" is one of the landmark books in the field of gender history.What is gender history, you ask?To a large degree, that's a question this book is trying to answer.This book can be regarded as an explanation of *what* gender history is (as Scott defines it, at any rate), why it's important, and how it can be done.Read more

Subjects:  1. 19th century    2. 20th century    3. Gender Studies    4. General    5. History    6. Sex Roles (Sociological Aspects)    7. Sex role    8. Social Science    9. Sociology    10. Sociology Of Women    11. Women    12. Women's Studies - General    13. Women's Studies - History    14. Cultural studies    15. Historiography    16. History / Europe / General    17. Women's studies   

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Also see the DVD with Jean Kilbourne
This book's ideas need to reach more people.It seems we're inundated with stories of child molesters, drug pushers, and other threats to us and our children; but the 200 billion dollars spent by the junk food makers, pharmaceutical pushers, military recruiters and others to colonize the hearts and minds of our kids is often overlooked.Sadly, many of those who are learning to look critically at the commercial media are often more privileged economically.Maybe we can find ways to reach out to other sectors of our society through letters to editors, calls to talk radio, writing on message boards and so forth.Also, there are additional resources that we can use to share perspectives to help protect people (kids and adults) from the psychological warfare of Big Business.I'd recommend DVDs like "Deadly Persuasion" from the Media Education Foundation, which is an expose of tobacco and alcohol advertising presented by Jean Kilbourne.There is also the award-winning film called "The Corporation" available from Amazon.Subscriptions to "Adbusters" and "New Moon" are also very helpful outreach tools.

An Absolute Must Read!!
Can't Buy My Love is an extraordinary book, insightful, critical, and without a doubt, an eye-opener.This book should be required reading by all Americans!Personally, it has played a pivotal role in my life.I would say I'm your average American citizen.I grew up in New York, immersed in the typical American culture.I watched plenty of television and movies and thus was exposed to an endless array of advertisements.As most people, I didn't think that my thoughts and actions were influenced by these advertisements.But after reading this book, I clearly saw how the messages and images of the media had a huge impact in my life.Until I read this book, I was sort of unconscious of this influence.I just went shopping as though it was a ritual and followed the mainstream culture.I went out drinking and pretended to have a good time while engaged in superficial conversations in loud smoky bars.Essentially, this book brought me to many realizations and my mentality started to shift for the better.I started to see things for what they are.Jean Kilbourne does an excellent job of analyzing numerous ads and clearly demonstrates the manipulation and false promises imbedded within these cleverly designed ads.Corporations spend millions of dollars on advertising and psychological research.As the targets of these ads, we as citizens need to be critical thinkers and media literate.In this day and age, we need to have an understanding of how the media industry works and in particular, the advertising industry, which constantly bombards us with messages on how we should live our lives and what is considered "normal."I highly, highly recommend this book.It's clear, concise, understandable, and will definitely have a positive impact in your life.I especially recommend this book to teenagers, who unfortunately have become the victims of massive amounts of advertisements.Profit-driven corporations have taken advantage of young impressionable minds and for that reason, I urge you to pick up a copy of this book for yourself and someone you care about!This one book was able to jump start a transformation in my life.I promise you won't regret reading it!

A fantastic and important book
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Subjects:  1. Marketing - Research    2. Media Studies    3. Social Science    4. Sociology    5. Women consumers    6. Women in advertising    7. Women's Studies - General    8. Social Science / Women's Studies   

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I am enjoying this book, although I am reading it at a slow pace.The chapters are divided by sections of the poems and there are meditations in each chapter-which I find helpful.

Awful, Just Awful
I really wanted to like this book. I have been schooled in the wisdom of "original blessing" as a corrective for the concept of original sin, and well, I'm a woman. So I thought this book would be right up my alley. Reilly goes overboard, however, in rejecting _any_ attempts at self-discernment as negative. There is such a thing as self-assessment that is accepting, positive, and life-affirming, without necessarily approving of everything that we accept about ourselves.
Amazing!
This book is worth every penny it costs and more.She puts words to the feeling so many woman have: what is wrong with me or am I lovable?All I can say is buy it, read it, and you will find a whole new world of love and peace opened up to you. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Affirmations    2. Personal Growth - Self-Esteem    3. Psychology    4. Religious life    5. Self-Help    6. Spiritual life    7. Women    8. Women's Studies - General    9. Mind, body, spirit: mysticism & self-awareness    10. Popular psychology    11. Women's studies   

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The Feminist War on Women.
One of the major reasons why radical feminism remains such a destructive influence on the lives of Americans is that it claims to speak for women when it really only represents a minute percentage of them. The feminista activist has proved quite adept at obscuring this fact by labeling their critics as "patriarchal, anti-woman" and "sexist." The irony lost on many is that no social movement in history has so thoroughly undermined the constituency they pretended to represent.
An enlightening read
I really enjoyed reading this book "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex, and Feminism" by Carrie L. Lukas. This book taught me plenty of information. I was surprised to learn that cohabiting couples are more likely to divorce than remain happily married and that women who divorce typically regret it afterwards and often end up unhappier than when they were married. One would think that because of things like alimony checks and child custody that the opposite would be valid. I was also surprised to learn that it was a myth that one out of four women has either rape victims or victims of an attempted rape. There is also a great deal of information on domestic violence, fertility, liberation, abortion, daycare, and statistics that address health care issues. In short, I would say get this book (despite its low average customer review rating) if you are hoping to gain some enlightenment and learn about feminism from a point of view that is not based on PC myths.

Her eduation was a waste
Look, the fact is feminism is about CHOICE no more, no less. I have the highest respect for stay at home moms--it is the hardest darn job on Earth. But this woman is WAY off base to say that feminism sold us a lie. Feminism GAVE us a choice. It told us we did not HAVE to pretend to believe we were June Cleaver if that was not what was in our hearts and souls.
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"REAL WOMAN" Defined

A True Feminist Manifesto
Alice von Hildebrand gives us authentic feminism in this explosive little book. Just as Marx's manifesto set Europe on edge, so this little book should set on edge those who have tied themselves to the false feminism of the sexual revolution. Von Hildebrand sees in the female body, with its hidden sexual organs, a sacredness and a mystery that make women the guardians of purity. This special mission to guard purity is the mission of women. And so von Hildebrand points out that for women to fail in that mission is a grievous self-injury, both physicial and spiritual. Her manifesto strikes at the heart of the false feminism that has wounded, and even destroyed, so many women in the West.

I love this book
If you are frustrated with modern feminism's hatred of women, and looking for validation in the context of Christianity, then you need to read this book!
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Good Read
This book was not better then the first book in the series but definately beter then the 2nd one. I found the story boring at time as some issues that were already discussed in the fist book where discussed again in the 3rd book. Other then that it was a good continuation.

For Goodpasture
Goodpasture, I simply had to share with you that I happen to know that the princess supports over 700 needy families, from feeding them to educating their children to tending to their health care.In fact, in the book, if you finished reading it, tells how her son bought a business in Pakistan and set the young woman up as the owner, where she is prospering.Although she did stay in the princess' sister's home for a while, it was explained in the book that they were afraid to send her home, that her parents might resell her.Everything takes time.I know two princesses extremely well, one from Saudi Arabia and one from Kuwait, and both are extremely generous and help people all over the world.I'm sorry you had such a negative opinion of the princess, but like I said, I'm confused that you didn't read on to see that indeed she did change the young woman's life in a very wonderful manner.Just because the princess is extremely wealthy and does enjoy her personal wealth, she gives away a mind-boggling amount of money, and for good causes.I just thought you would like to know, as well as others, so you would not feel so disappointed and angry at the princess over an impression that is not reality.Also, many things are not told in the books as some things would give her identity away on the spot.

Circle needs to extend radius beyond Princess's delusional microcosm

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The Second Sex Transcends Time
Simone's treatise is the most brave and brilliant piece of literature ever written about gender and its effects on the lives of everyone we know. She continues to speak the truths about men, women and privilege in society and the corrosive effects of the constructed and artificial roles that we still struggle with. The Second Sex is as essential and appropriate reading today as it was 40 years ago. To anyone interested in the roots of gender oppression, definition and equal access to opportunity, this is the go to reference book. Simone de Beauvoir has found another generation of readers who understand its appeal to rationality, historical accuracy and truth.

NOT GOOD
after seeing The Guru on TV i got into the whole sex book thing i read all the best sellers from Mars and Venus in The Bedroom by John Gray to How To Get Any Girl Any Time by The Guru
exceptional achievement
Simone de Beauvoir basically explains the sexual initiation of the female, her relations with the opposite gender, and her place in society, in the style of her classic manifesto of the liberated woman.
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Finally, some good news!
We've been told since we were young that men marry "down" and that no woman with a career or significant education should expect to attract many men.But Whelan's book, citing U.S. census data and her own study commissioned for the book, reveals that this is false!High-achieving women marry at the same rates as, and in some cases higher rates than, the average woman.She goes on to explain that the persistence of this myth might be explained by the fact that high-achieving women marry a little later than the average woman.In other words, we might see that many high-achieving women in their late twenties are unmarried, but things start to even out as these women get married in their thirties.
WhySmartWomenNeed to Read this Book
Remember that line about a woman over 30 having a better chance of being hit by lightning than getting married?Well I just picked up a copy of this book, and not only is it entertaining and compelling, but it also addresses all of the horrible, outdated myths about single women with careers, men and marriage -- it is possible (probable) to get married after your 30th birthday after all!I highly recommend this book and I'm buying this for all of my single friends. ... Read more

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Aishe Berger Is a Wonderful Poet
There are so many wonderful pieces in this collection, but my favorite is Aishe Berger's poem Nose Is a Country...I Am the Second Generation. She deserves to be read and re-read. Buy the book, if only to read her work!

Feminists buy this book
I originally read this book for a women studies class at SUNY New Paltz. Here I am two years later, unable to find my original buying it again.It is a helpful book for all women studies courses, and an excellent book forone's own life, using personal essays relating to women's issues. ... Read more

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Goddess wisdomfor everyone
This book is an excellent read for any woman (or the men in her life) that wants to understand herself better. I had several "light bulb" moments of insight as I was reading,as I saw parts of myself in the goddesses Artemis, Athena and Aphrodite. It was very educational as to what makes women tick and then what we as women can do to be more well rounded pyschologically. The blend of Jung analysis and ancient greek myth makes for an easy to understand why we women act the ways we do. I recommend it for any women seeking to know her inner goddess.

Finding My Own Myth
This book was extrememly useful to me.I have had to overcome many myths my family has projected onto me, about myself. Dr. Bolen's book helped me to pinpoint my underlying picture.I was able to do this because of the information about the other goddess archetyes.I think if you are a woman, and you are beginning a path of healing and recovery of your true self,this book will help you find the goddess who holds you captive(so to speak).I could then search for a way out of my captivity and access the strength available to me through the archetype I identified with.There are strengths and weaknesses to all the goddesses butI saw a common thread that ran through all of my life.I now had a starting point,I could then walk forward.

The originator of all Goddess Power books
Now that the Goddess power has gotten mainstream ... it's time to honor the first writer to use it as a psychological archetype for all people. Dr. Bolen presents a brilliant piece of work. Find your inner Athena today!
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Great Work
If you like Satrapi's other works, you will like this. Pithier, more serious than prior work.

Tiny but intimate glimpse into the lives of Iranian women....
Marjane Satrapi has a gift of bringing images of Iran to life with minimal words and simple but elegant drawings.EMBROIDERIES details much about Iranian women through a discussion between women of various generations at a tea time.Satrapi was in charge of the samovar and stated that the tea at noon and night functioned as a gathering time for women to discuss men, love, sex and even plastic surgery.Prior to reading this book the first time, I was unaware of how independent-thinking Iranian women are.I also was unaware of the numerous tactics used to maintain this freedom in what is a very male-dominated society (and when you learn what embroidery means....).I think the funniest moment was the woman who tried to cut herself with a razor on her wedding night so her husband would think she was a virgin but instead the woman cut her husband!However, the naivete was also very apparent as one woman married a man, received many jewels as wedding gifts, and then allowed her husband to leave for Switzerland 10 days or so after their wedding with all of her jewels- and of course he asked for a divorce after he had taken all of her jewels and safely left the country.Reading this book was like getting a tiny but intimate glimpse into the lives of Iranian women and realizing that they are just like American women in many ways.I highly recommend this book but will state I enjoyed it better the second time than the first.

Good read, but way too short.
I have read all of Satrapi's entertaining, educational and revealing books. Embroideries is all those things as well -- the only shortcoming is the length of the book -- the ending is very abrupt and you feel that there is much more to be said about the subject. Nonetheless would I recommend this book to anyone who liked Persepolis 1 & 2 ... Read more

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Sex and the Seasoned Woman:Pursing the Passionate Life
I loved this book!As baby boomers approach midlife we have many choices in how to live "our second adulthood stage".After reading this book I am excited about this stage and the possibilities that lie ahead.Don't read it if you are not open to such ideas and would rather live this stage of your life in a more matronly fashion.But for those of us who want more....read it!

Passion hype
According to the author, women below middle age either were or are repressed and suppressed, trying to please others and probably stuck in unhappy, unfulfilling, and