Meaning of Wife

Name: Meaning of Wife
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ISBN: 9780002000130

ISBN-10: 000200013X

ISBN-13: 9780002000130

Edition: 2003

Authors: Anne Kingston

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There is a wife crisis in North America, a brewing storm of conflicting forces swirling around what it means to be a wife at the beginning of the 21st century. The word "wife," so fraught with ambiguity that it has become a female litmus test, elicits from women emotions ranging from longing to antipathy, anxiety to derision. The wife crisis is at the heart of journalist Anne Kingston's often surprising and bound to be controversial new book, The Meaning of Wife.Cannily juxtaposing the Korean wife schools currently operated by the USO in Seoul with the recent marriage of feminist icon Gloria Steinem, Kingston delves into the complex, troubling, and sometimes humorous contradictions,…

Book details

Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.30" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English