ShortJohnSilver
23rd December 2010, 06:25 PM
Bio of Cathi Hanauer - she was the only Jewish girl growing up in an Italian-Catholic area of NJ ...
Surprised she writes for Seventeen magazine and many other women's magazines as well?
In the spirit of Virginia Woolf, who wrote of killing the "Angel in the House," these 26 women mostly professional writers focus on the inner "bitch": the frustration, anger and rage that's never far from the surface of many women's lives. They sound off on the difficult decisions of living with lovers, marrying, staying single and having children. Those who haven't chosen the single life are almost always frustrated by their mates' incompetence or their toddlers' neediness. (They reserve special scorn for overly laid-back live-in lovers content to live off a hardworking woman's checkbook.) While a handful of entries touch other sources of anger being criticized for one's weight, simultaneously caring for ailing parents and a young family, coping with a husband who's out to win his baby daughter's loyalty most focus on the love vs. work problem. For many of these women, this means a struggle over the right to be a bitch and inflict unpleasantness on others for the sake of a higher goal (one's work) versus the feminine imperative to "make nice." While unbridled rage is terribly cathartic even in print it's the quieter moments that provide more food for thought. Daphne Merkin's observation that she's "more equipped to handle the risks of loneliness than those of intimacy" and thus better off divorced, or Nancy Wartik's thought that "some compromises might actually be healthy," will ring true for many readers. Others may find it comforting to know that even smart, articulate, successful women can have deeply unsettled inner lives.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060936460?ie=UTF8&tag=pgreenspun-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0060936460
This is a standard sort of attack on the nuclear family, see for an earlier generation, Betty Friedan, actual name: Betty Naomi Goldstein wrote the Feminine Mystique in an attempt to erode/undermine/subvert ...
See: http://www.savethemales.ca/000185.html
Surprised she writes for Seventeen magazine and many other women's magazines as well?
In the spirit of Virginia Woolf, who wrote of killing the "Angel in the House," these 26 women mostly professional writers focus on the inner "bitch": the frustration, anger and rage that's never far from the surface of many women's lives. They sound off on the difficult decisions of living with lovers, marrying, staying single and having children. Those who haven't chosen the single life are almost always frustrated by their mates' incompetence or their toddlers' neediness. (They reserve special scorn for overly laid-back live-in lovers content to live off a hardworking woman's checkbook.) While a handful of entries touch other sources of anger being criticized for one's weight, simultaneously caring for ailing parents and a young family, coping with a husband who's out to win his baby daughter's loyalty most focus on the love vs. work problem. For many of these women, this means a struggle over the right to be a bitch and inflict unpleasantness on others for the sake of a higher goal (one's work) versus the feminine imperative to "make nice." While unbridled rage is terribly cathartic even in print it's the quieter moments that provide more food for thought. Daphne Merkin's observation that she's "more equipped to handle the risks of loneliness than those of intimacy" and thus better off divorced, or Nancy Wartik's thought that "some compromises might actually be healthy," will ring true for many readers. Others may find it comforting to know that even smart, articulate, successful women can have deeply unsettled inner lives.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060936460?ie=UTF8&tag=pgreenspun-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0060936460
This is a standard sort of attack on the nuclear family, see for an earlier generation, Betty Friedan, actual name: Betty Naomi Goldstein wrote the Feminine Mystique in an attempt to erode/undermine/subvert ...
See: http://www.savethemales.ca/000185.html