Wonder Women Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection

Name: Wonder Women Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection
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ISBN: 9780374298753

ISBN-10: 0374298750

ISBN-13: 9780374298753

Edition: 2013

Authors: Debora L. Spar

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Debora Spar spent most of her life avoiding feminism. Raised after the tumult of the '60s, she presumed that the gender war was over; she swore to young women that yes, they could have it all. "We thought we could glide into the new era with babies, board seats, and husbands in tow," she writes. "We were wrong." Spar should know. One of the first women professors at Harvard Business School, she went on to have four children and became the chair of her department. Now she's the president of Barnard College, arguably the most important all-women school in the country, an institution firmly committed to feminism. Wonder Women is Spar's story and the culture's. Armed with reams of new…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 9/17/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Prologue



Growing Up Charlie



Girls: A Handbook



Sex and the Social Contract



Bodies and Other Accessories



Truly, Madly, Deeply



Mythologies of Birth



The Good Wife's Guide to Life and Love



Crashing Into Ceilings: A Report From the Nine-To-Five Shift



Memories of My Waist



Kissing Charlie Goodbye


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index