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Title: Bitch : In Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel ISBN: 0-385-48401-1 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 18 May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.07 (72 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Funny and Insightful
Comment: Elizabeth Wurtzel illuminates the multi-faceted, often maddening but always enlightening personality of the modern woman. I picked this one up right after reading Naomi Wolf's much more academic "The Beauty Myth," and found myself devouring it in large chunks. Much of this can be attributed to Wurtzel's unfailing ability to weave a sardonic sense of humor with some piercing insights on women and their rather confusing place in American modern culture. She writes like a woman with little time to spare, and it will keep you glued to the page. Her chapter on Hillary Clinton, which includes some controversial but agreeable theories on the role of the First Lady, is a standout.
Read this book if you want to understand what it's like to be a young woman in America - nay, the world - today. It'll get you thinking, even when you're ready to throw your hands in the air in exhaustion.
Rating: 5
Summary: Bitchy and proud of it ...
Comment: Finally, somebody is giving a voice to all those difficult women in the world! Having read "Prozac Nation" at least ten times, if not more, I was dying to read Bitch and it did not disappoint me. We all put up with difficult men: those who are moody, unwilling to commit, those who keep their distance for way too long and those who are so intruiging that we can't NOT pay attention. At last there is a voice to all of those women saying, Wait a second, I don't HAVE to get married, I don't HAVE to have children, why slave myself to a man? Wurtzel is funny, she's smart, she's independent and she does as she feels. Between Bitch and Prozac Nation she comments on just about every element of our culture and raises ideas that I had never even thought of. Bitch made me laugh, it made me think, it made me say "Hey you have to read this!" to every single person I spoke to. Wurtzel's witty writing style and blase attitude was one that I've been struggling with for ages and I have finally decided that I have spent too long trying to keep myself in check, and playing the good girl. While cataloguing famous "bad-girls", Wurtzel also points out that being "difficult" IS NOT A BAD THING. In her chapter about Amy Fischer, she brings up the point that by sleeping around and doing as she pleased, Amy was only doing what every other male teenager does, only instead of being a "slut", men are cool. Women who do what they want should not be labeled as a "depressive" or a "drug-addict", but their behavior ennunciated. After all, why should men have all the fun?
Rating: 2
Summary: Self-justification masking as feminism
Comment: I gave this book two stars for its readability; however, its engaging style only made me more annoyed that the book suffered from such an extreme lack of focus. Elizabeth Wurtzel (as she constantly reminds us in every book she's ever written) is attractive, connected, and well-educated. It is clear from even the most unfocused ramblings in "Bitch" that she is also intelligent, insightful, and erudite. It is also clear that the thing she values most about herself is her good looks, which appears to be what she spends most of her life thinking about and obsessing over, like she's in a perpetual state of smugness at having won the genetic lottery. I always get the impression when I read Wurtzel that she is a) totally shallow and self-obsessed, and b) keenly aware that shallowness, obsession with one's own beauty, and openly judging others by their looks isn't "cool", so she has to spend hundreds of pages justifying all the energy she spends thinking about nothing more than herself and how much prettier she is than average girls. The result: "Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women". In the end, this book is nothing more than Wurtzel's attempt to intellectually justify her painfully obvious feelings of superiority over women who are not as attractive as her. As a graduate student that men also flirt with alot, I can honestly say that I find Wurtzel's self-worship both sad and immature. I also can't figure out why she still tries to pull off the whole "I do drugs to ease my self-hatred at being so beautiful and brilliant and alienated" routine - yawn, Ms. Wurtzel, your pose is showing. The bottom line: no matter how many great books she's read herself, she has yet to write one. If she can get over herself and off the speed, maybe someday she will, and I look forward to reading it. Until then, she should stick to concert reviews for Rolling Stone.
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Title: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America: A Memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel, Riverhead Books ISBN: 1573225126 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction by Elizabeth Wurtzel ISBN: 0743223314 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 31 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Radical Sanity : Commonsense Advice for Uncommon Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel ISBN: 0812991605 Publisher: AtRandom Pub. Date: 20 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Skin Game : A Memoir by Caroline Kettlewell ISBN: 0312263937 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 07 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction by Elizabeth Wurtzel ISBN: 0743223306 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 27 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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