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THE FEMINIST AND THE COWBOY
By: Alisa Valdes
Gotham Books
January 2013
On Sale: January 3, 2013
336 pages
ISBN: 1592407900
EAN: 9781592407903
Kindle: B0087GJ22G
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Non-Fiction Biography
The bestselling author of The Dirty Girls Social Club returns with an engrossing memoir about how falling in love with a sexy cowboy turned her feminist beliefs upside down. Feminism was a religion in Alisa Valdesβs childhood home. Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem took the place of Barbies and left Valdes impressed with a feminist ideology that guided a prolific writing careerβat twenty-two Valdes was named one of the top feminist writers under thirty by the editor of Ms Magazine. Yet despite her professional success, Valdes hit forty-two a single mom and a serial dater of inadequate men in tweed jacketsβuntil she met the Cowboy. A conservative rancher, the Cowboy held the traditional views on gender roles that Valdes was raised to reject. Yet as she falls head-over-spurs for him and their relationship finds harmony, she finds the strength, peace, and happiness that comes from embracing her femininity. From their first date the Cowboy makes her pulse race, and she discovers that βwhen menβ¦ act like men rather than like emasculated boys, you as a woman will find not only great pleasure in submitting to them but also great growth as a person.β Told with plenty of humor and candor, The Feminist and the Cowboy will delight the many readers who made The Pioneer Woman a bestsellerβnot to mention every woman who dreams of being swept away by a rugged cowboy.
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