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Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection
Sarah Crichton Books
September 2013
On Sale: September 17, 2013
320 pages
ISBN: 0374298750
EAN: 9780374298753
Kindle: B00C2RXWUE
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Non-Fiction
Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act, why are women still living in a manβs world? Debora L. Spar never thought of herself as a feminist. Raised after the tumult of the 1960s, she presumed the gender war was over. As one of the youngest female professors to be tenured at Harvard Business School and a mother of three, she swore to young women that they could have it all. βWe thought we could just glide into the new era of equality, with babies, board seats, and husbands in tow,β she writes. βWe were wrong.β Now she is the president of Barnard College, arguably the most important all-womenβs college in the United States. And in Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfectionβa fresh, wise, original bookβ she asks why, a half century after the publication of Betty Friedanβs The Feminine Mystique, do women still feel stuck. In this groundbreaking and compulsively readable book, Spar explores how American womenβs lives haveβand have notβchanged over the past fifty years. Armed with reams of new research, she details how women struggled for power and instead got stuck in an endless quest for perfection. The challenges confronting women are more complex than ever, and they are challenges that come inherently and inevitably from being female. Spar is acutely aware that itβs time to change course. Both deeply personal and statistically rich, Wonder Women is Sparβs story and the story of our culture. It is cultural history at its best, and a road map for the future.
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