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Title: The Hearts of Men : American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment by Barbara Ehrenreich ISBN: 0-385-17615-5 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 March, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The economy changed, and the culture had to adjust.
Comment: Ehrenreich emphasizes that the economy changed dramatically during the post war boom, and the changes in the economy eventually demanded changes in the culture. Women have always worked, but they use to work at home on a farm. Even as late as the 30s and 40s America was still heavily agricutural. But during the 50s and 60s farm life died out in America, not totally of course, but to a large extent, replaced by big industry and then computers. On a farm a woman could do valuable work, in the new world of the 50s there was nothing for a woman to do but sit around and look pretty. You had millions of women of intelligence and strength and a desire for meaningful labor, and they no longer had an outlet, because they no longer lived on a farm. On a farm the could help their man and their family everyday, in a meaninful way. In the 50s, they were mere parasites, living at home in ease while the men worked. And eventualy, of course, the men got tired of that arrangement. To put it another way, on a farm, a man needs a wife. In the modern world, a man doesn't need a woman as much, or at least not in the same way. At some point, the culture had to adjust to the changes in the economy, and that adjustment was feminism. Women had to work so they could still contribute something meaninful to a marriage.
Rating: 2
Summary: duh?
Comment: With the notable exception of the Anglo-American versions, most revolutions are premised on the belief that the existing structure of society has been artificially imposed and that by altering that structure you can remake human beings and human nature in a new image. So the French Revolution required that the monarchy and the aristocracy be discarded and expected that egalitarianism and brotherhood would follow, as day follows night; meanwhile, Marxist Revolutions suppose that once capitalism and capitalists are done away with, the happy workers of the world will share and share alike. Of course, history has shown these revolutionary ideals to be absolutely ludicrous, and such revolutions have come a cropper when the ugly but immutable facts of human nature have come roaring back with a vengeance. This creates a rather hilarious situation whereby revolutionaries are continually being surprised by manifestations of the very characteristics which mankind has understood itself to have since time immemorial--greed, lust,selfishness, etc.. Barbara Ehrenreich is not only a socialist, but a radical feminist, which means that besides that Marxist vision, she also believes that once the patriarchy is overthrown, men and women will be coequal and will live in blessed harmony. This book then is based on her supposedly controversial discovery that the disintegration of the nuclear family, which has generally been blamed on feminism, owes just as much to the political desires of men. Duh?
Just step back for a second and think about Women's Liberation has meant for men. Basically, women have had to take on more economic responsibilities and more child-rearing responsibilities, while at the same time their mortality rates have begun to more closely match men's and, thanks to abortion of female children and these worsening health rates, their absolute numbers have begun to decline back towards those of men, or even below. In exchange, men have gotten to slough off economic responsibility for women and children, have been able to get out of child rearing responsibilities, and have gotten much freer access to intercourse with females. How can Ehrenreich possibly be surprised that men were willing participants in this process ?
GRADE : D
Rating: 2
Summary: Two stars is overly generous
Comment: I thought that this book was well researched. That is why I was generous enough to give it two stars. However, the dryness of this novel cannot be described. This book dragged on for hours and at the end it was hard to make a point out of the book as a whole. I got as much out of the first page as I did from the middle 200. I do not recommend this book to anyone who expects a book that will not only flow well, but will also keep the reader even remotely interested.
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Title: Bone : Novel, A by Fae M. Ng ISBN: 006097592X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 12 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Memoirs of a Beatnik by Diane Di Prima, Diana Di Prima ISBN: 0140235396 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Beebo Brinker by Ann Bannon ISBN: 1573441252 Publisher: Cleis Press Pub. Date: 10 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class by Barbara Ehrenreich ISBN: 0060973331 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 26 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: Myra Breckinridge/Myron (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Gore Vidal ISBN: 0141180285 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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