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Title: Keys to the Kingdom by Armstrong, Alison A. Armstrong ISBN: 0-9741435-0-2 Publisher: Pax Programs Inc. Pub. Date: October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.31 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: FABULOUS work by Alison
Comment: This book will stay in my collection of books forever and I will read it again and again. I have taken the Celebrating Men, Satisfying Women workshop and will take the graduate courses shortly. I am one of the women who "woke up in a different world" after participating in the Celebrating Men, Satisfying Women workshop. While reading Keys to the Kingdom, I laughed and cried and felt so connected to the characters. I cannot put into words (as I'm limited to the amount of words I can use here) what the information that I have received from reading this book and hearing the information from Alison has done for me and the relationships with the important men in my life. It has also transformed how I see myself and given me even more (and I already had a lot) self confidence.
A must read for all women who want to transform their relationships with the men in their lives and transform their relationship with themselves.
Rating: 4
Summary: A fresh approach to a popular subject
Comment: I was given a copy of this book and, although I originally resisted it as a "chick book," I eventually cracked it open and I had a hard time putting it down.
Alison Armstrong has made it her purpose to understand how men operate in the realm of communication, sex and relationship and to relate this information to women, such that they can enjoy true, loving partnership with men. Her approach seems to entail some "bad news/good news" for most women, who have sorely missed the mark in the way they've treated men, but who have incredible power to have men show up as the lovers, givers and heroes they naturally are.
This book is written like a novel but it occurs to me as more of a vehicle to communicate Alison's teachings, as expressed in her "Celebrating Men/Satisfying Women" workshops. It's a good read if taken in that light. Although I wouldn't necessarily nominate Alison for a Pulitzer, I would nominate her for the Nobel Peace Prize. Her insights into how men think are laser accurate, and any woman who is ready to take on responsibility in her relationships with men, and the blessings that accompany it, will love this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Toward A Happy Medium
Comment: Often, when a movement develops and takes hold in a society--to correct a social malady-that movement has a tendency to swing too far in the other direction. In my opinion, such is the case with feminism. Developed to prioritize the unmet needs of women at large, its principles and its programs served to meet those needs. This was (and is) a praiseworthy goal. However, something happened on the way to that goal: the needs of men at large often went unheeded or even denigrated. Just as in the case of the opposite, both parties were unsatisfied.
Alison Armstrong's "Keys to the Kingdom" is part of a new movement: a laudable attempt to swing the pendulum back the other way, toward a happy middle ground.
How does the twenty-first century American woman live in peace with her husband? By accepting three things that many of our foremothers realized almost instinctively: 1) men and women develop in ways that are fundamentally different from each other, 2) stemming from those differences, men and women have different expectations from each other, and 3) neither is happy living life with each other unless those expectations are met to a reasonable degree.
In her novel, Armstrong ably demonstrates these facts of life. Her protagonist, Karen, has been married to Mike for several years but is becoming distressed by the lack of ability to communicate between the two. An older woman, Claudia, comes into her life and helps her to understand the "secrets" about men; those that have been handed down matrilineally in Claudia's family. Claudia teaches Karen that her husband's needs are just as important as her own, that they change as a man ages.
The most enlightening part of the novel (for me) had Claudia explaining to Karen of the stages of develop for men. After reading these parts, I began to apply the characteristics of the stages to the men in my own life and found that they fit nearly to a tee. Behavior that I had previously found inexplicably--viewed through my female sensibilities--began to make sense.
Armstrong is to be commended. She has done a great service for both men and women: increased their chances of being happy.
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Title: The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs by David Pryce-Jones ISBN: 1566634407 Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Woman Power : Transform Your Man, Your Marriage, Your Life by Laura Schlessinger ISBN: 0060753234 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 03 August, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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