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Childfree and Loving It!

Nicki Defago

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

population expansion, environment and GDP growth 4 out of 5 stars.
9 of 24 people found this review helpful.

I concentrate mostly on the issue of population expansion and its impact on the environment. It is good that this book mentions at least a bit about China's one child policy. The author said that China's one child policy, according to western standards, violates human rights. But I think it is very very difficult for any country to implement one child policy without violating human rights. Afterall, is human birth rights really that important ??? No, I don't think so. We human beings (of course there are exceptions) almost never respect the living rights of other species. The way we treat many other species are very very cruel. Such as finning the sharks, overfeeding the geese for goose liver, killing the mammals for fur, etc.
Even in China there are more and more people becoming richer and richer, they DON'T BOTHER the penalties for having more than one child. They simply pay the penalties. They don't care. In China, people challenge China's one child policy by illegally taking fertility drugs. So there are more and more twin births recently.

World population expansion is really a big big problem. I recommend reading another book "The World Without Us" .

It is sad that many countries' leaders complaining about their aging population. Indeed countries like Japan, Germany, etc. want their people to have more children. Their underlying pupose is to increase the young workforce in the entire population. What for ? They only want GDP GROWTH !!!!!!!!! In other words, those country leaders treat their own people merely as a product that produce GDP. They treat us as GDP output machine !!!!! I am strongly disgusted with them !!!!! Those leaders do think this way. And they are very insulting to us. Afterall we are born to be GDP slaves. And in this generation most parents "HYPERPARENT" their children, force them to learn more and more in a shorter and shorter time. After the children grow up, they get married (hardly), and buy house in mortgage for 20+ years !!!! You see, we ARE GDP SLAVES !!!! We work for whole live paying mortgages. The big corporations and banks keep sucking our blood. So, what is the point of being born in this planet ???

Recently many scientists claim that the Great Barrier Reef will be "dead" in less than fifty years, the whole world's fishes will be consumed to extinction within 50 years. And there will be many many more human induced extinction in the near future. This is REAL.

So, in this sense, China is a responsible nation to implement one child policy, though it is a bit too late. But unfortunately people from developing countries also have the right to aspire first world life style (such as USA, Japan etc) . According to Diamond's book "Collapse" if the whole population of China become rich enough and if they all want western lifestyle, it needs "TWO EARTHS" to support it !!!!!! Our ecological footprint (Google search the term "ecological footprint" and you will find some websites) is so large that our planet Earth cannot support it.
According to many research sources, human population will be about 9 billion in 2050, and will reach 12 billion in 2100. If human population continues to expand at this rate, in the year 3500 AD the total mass of human beings will be roughly equal to the total mass of our planet Earth !!!

So far I haven't finished reading the whole book yet. I did not find any interviews with very rich people or celebrities who are deliberately childfree. I am very disappointed. Many many ultra-rich people wants to have children because most of them want to inherit their wealth to their next generation. Rich people usually abuse the environment much much more than the average people.

I have very very strong opinion and I offend many people. I don't care.

Editorial Review:

Recording the opinions of childless women from all over the world and letting this growing band answer their detractors, this investigation looks into the world of those who choose not to have children. Interviewees speak freely and honestly about their experiences, providing readers with both the many reasons people choose to live child-free and insight into what seems to them an unhealthy amount of societal pressure to become mothers and fathers. This book also presents interviews with parents who wish they had not had children while offering their reasons for feeling regret. Concluding with a look into the workplace, this title evaluates the fairness of allowing parents shorter days and time off to accommodate children, compared to the working environment of those who have chosen to live without children.

Conversations on Purpose for Women: 10 Appointments That Will Help You Discover God's Plan for Your Life

Katie Brazelton

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Worth the work! 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

This isn't a just workbook -- it is a book that helps you examine your heart, your values and your motives while you have the conversations on purpose - you find more about God's purpose for your life ---

Great in comjunction with the other books 5 out of 5 stars.
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I got this book with the Pathway to Purpose and Prayers for Purpose and I am working throw the lessons with my friend. They are great, very helpful and inspirational.

If you work it, this DELIVERS! 4 out of 5 stars.
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This book and the companion book (Pathway to Purpose for Women) are INCREDIBLE and deliver on the promise of capability to be life-changing IF you are ready to really have the honest and transparent conversations and work the steps of the path. These are thought-provoking conversations and you have to be ready to pray like never before, be patient and put your learnings and discoveries into use (you must be ready to be bold about pursuing your passions, not just identifying them and letting them sit in a journal). I'm working through these conversations with several women now and seeing amazing life change, among women I admired already!

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Designed to be used with a Purpose Partner, this workbook is filled with conversation starters, Scripture verses, questions, and specific self-assessment exercises to help unpack God’s Dream for your life, moving you from an initial sneak preview to the most challenging steps you will want to take on your journey toward purpose-filled living.

We Are Our Mothers' Daughters

Cokie Roberts

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Total reviews: 34 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

For all Women 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is a gentle book of celebration. Cokie Roberts is an attractive lady from a large family of achievers. She shares part of her life story with the reader and writes valuable information in the form of essays, about amazing women past and present; many of whom we have not been aware of.

I thoroughly enjoyed this easy to read book. I recommend it as encouragement to all women especially those hiding their talents.
Mostly though, it is a reassuring book in that we women are reminded to appreciate each other, ever learning, ever discovering new ways to contribute, even if our best efforts go unnoticed for a time; willing to step back or go forward as the need arises, and always share the credits.

With all due respect to the author, I find the title to be unworthy of this fine book. I am my daughter's mother; some women have no daughters, some daughters have no mother to encourage them - anyway perhaps I haven't gotten the point. Do read this book, enjoy it, and give it your own title!

Editorial Review:

"What is woman's place? That's been the hot question of my adult life."

Renowned news correspondent, Cokie Roberts, explores significant issues confronting women on the cusp of the new millennium, such as the balance of work and family, the diverse roles of women, and the connection and distinction between different generations of women. She addresses these critical topics through the lens of her reporting career, melding her personal experiences with the experiences of other exceptional women she has met.Sensitive, straightforward, and perceptive, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters celebrates the diversity of choices and perspectives available to the women of today, but ultimately affirms a bond of female solidarity -- a vital, powerful interconnection among all women, whatever their background. It's an important message, delivered by one of America's most respected and eloquent journalists.

Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull

Barbara Goldsmith

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From the author of Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last, a stunning combination of history and biography that interweaves the stories of some of the most important social, political, and religious figures of America's Victorian era with the courageous and notorious life of Victoria Woodhull, to tell the story of her astonishing rise and fall and rise again.
        
This is history at its most vivid, set amid the battle for woman suffrage, the Spiritualist movement that swept across the nation (10 million strong by midcentury) in the age of Radical Reconstruction following the Civil War, and the bitter fight that pitted black men against white women in the struggle to win the right to vote.
        
The cast includes:
Victoria Woodhull, billed as a clairvoyant and magnetic healer--a devotee and priestess of those "other powers" that were gaining acceptance across America--in her father's traveling medicine show . . . spiritual and financial advisor to Commodore Vanderbilt . . . the first woman to address a joint session of Congress, where--backed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony--she presents an argument that women, as citizens, should have the right to vote . . . becoming the "high priestess" of free love in America (fiercely believing the then- heretical idea that women should have complete sexual equality with men) . . . making a run for the presidency of the United States against Horace Greeley and Ulysses S. Grant, and felled when her past career as a prostitute finally catches up with her.

Tennessee Claflin, sister of Victoria, also a clairvoyant, mistress to Commodore Vanderbilt . . . indicted for manslaughter in connection with the death of a woman in a bogus cancer clinic run by her father during the Civil War.

Henry Ward Beecher, the great preacher of Brooklyn's Plymouth Church--the most influential church in the country . . . brother of

Harriet Beecher Stowe . . . caught up in the scandal of the century (first revealed in Victoria Woodhull's own newspaper): his affair with Lib Tilton, the wife of his parishioner and best friend.

Lib Tilton, angelic, obedient wife of Theodore Tilton who believed her philandering husband's insistence that she was sexless and arid--until Henry Ward Beecher fell under her thrall and their affair exploded into the shocking Tilton-Beecher Scandal Trial that dominated the headlines for two years, made radical inroads toward the idea of acceptable sexual relations between men and women, and inspired the first questioning of the sanctity of the middle-class American Victorian home.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a discontented housewife who, bolstered by the great black activist Frederick Douglass, put forth a Declaration of Rights and Sentiments to empower women at the first woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls.

Anna Dickinson, lecturer extraordinaire, feminist heroine to thousands of women across the country, the model for Verena Tarrant in Henry James's The Bostonians.

Horace Greeley, editor of the Tribune, whose campaign for the presidency of the United States was centered on his opposition to the policies of Reconstruction . . . who helped to undermine the suffrage movement by writing editorials denouncing Victoria Woodhull.

Anthony Comstock, U.S. special postal agent, enthusiastically in charge of stamping out obscenity and pornography (he compared erotic feelings to "electrical wires connected to the inner dynamite of obscene thoughts"), who arrested Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin on charges of sending obscene material through the mail and was determined to bring his crusade against vice to the forefront of American thought, and to be hailed as a "paladin of American purity."
        
All of these people play major roles in this compelling book. Barbara Goldsmith draws on ten years of research and letters, diaries, newspaper clippings, and court transcripts to tell the story of a woman who
embodied--and lived--the tumults that were shaping the America of her time.

Gender Knot Cl

Allan Johnson

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We are all living deep inside an oppressive gender legacy called patriarchy. On some level, most people know that gender is tied to a great deal of suffering and injustice, from inequality in the workplace, to violence and sexual harassment, to the conflict between work and family roles. Millions of women are weary from the struggle simply to hang on to what's been gained, and many well-intentioned men do nothing because they can't see how to acknowledge what's going on without inviting guilt and blame simply for being men. The result is a knotted tangle of fear, anger, blame, defensiveness, guilt, pain, denial, ambivalence, and confusion. The more we pull at it, the tighter it gets.

Unraveling the knot begins with getting clear about what patriarchy really is, about what it's got to do with each of us, and about how both men and women can see themselves as part of the process of change toward something better. Based on more than twenty years of work on gender issues, The Gender Knot charts a course organized around three questions:

What are we participating in and how are we choosing to participate in it?

How do typical ways of thinking about gender blind us to what's going on?

What can men and women do to make a difference?

Johnson writes as a man passionately committed to the belief that oppression is not an inevitable feature of human life, and that each of us makes it matter more than we can ever know. He offers a practical, compassionate, and readable guide to understanding what we're stuck in and how to search for a way out.

The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory

L. Nicholson

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One of the Best Introductions to the Second (tidal)Wave 5 out of 5 stars.
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This superb collection of seminal texts from the so-called "second wave" of feminism is perhpas the best introduction to feminist thought I've come across. From Simone DeBeauvoir's famous statement "one is not born a woman..." to Gayatri Spivak's ruminations on "strategic essentialism" and Third World representation in American academia, literally every text is exceptional. The reader will find (almost) everything, from revolutionary African-American and Latina responses to the purported Eurocentrism in early feminist studies, to French feminists' (Irigaray and Wittig, specifically) provocative interrogations of the phallocentric culture, to mention a few. My only complaint is Nicholson's introductions to each section-- they could be a bit longer and more comprehensive; readers with a cursory knowledge of feminist thought should consider reading a basic introduction, not the texts themselves, before delving into this collection. Regardless, this book is a must-have for anyone interested in women's studies/feminism.

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The Second Wave collects many of the major essays of feminist theory of the past forty years, essays by the figures who have made key contributions to feminist theory during this period and have generated extensive discussion. Organized historically, these essays provide a sense of the major turning points in feminist theory.

Contributors include: Norma Alarcon, Linda Alcoff, Michele Barrett, Elsa Barkley Brown, Judith Butler, Nancy Chodorow, Patricia Hill Collins, Simone de Beauvoir, Shulamith Firestone, Nancy Fraser, Carol Gilligan, Heidi Hartmann, Nancy C. M. Hartsock, Luce Irigaray, Catharine MacKinnon, Uma Narayan, Linda Nicholson, Ellen Rooney, Gayle Rubin, Gayatri Spivak, Wendy W. Williams and Monique Wittig.

The Penguin Atlas of Women in the World: Completely Revised and Updated

Joni Seager

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AN INVALUABLE RESOURCE 5 out of 5 stars.
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I was first introduced to this atlas years ago in graduate school and was immediately impressed with the depth of subjects covered and professional graphics. As a result I was very happy to purchase Penguin's third edition of this atlas last week. Hot off the presses, THE PENGUIN ATLAS OF WOMEN IN THE WORLD contains up-to-date statistics of how women fare around the world. This invaluable resource is divided into the following seven sections: Women in the World, Families, Birthrights, Body Politics, Work, To Have and Have Not, and Power. This atlas succeeds where other types of media fail - it leaves a very evident impression of the continued discrepancy between men and women in all aspects of social, economic, and political life. After studying this atlas I was left with a renewed sense of what countries women fare better than others - and the answers might surprise you as much as myself! I highly recommend THE PENGUIN ATLAS OF WOMEN IN THE WORLD to anyone interested in the state of women around the world.

Editorial Review:

In this revision of her ground-breaking atlas, Joni Seager draws on a vast amount of new global data to explore the key issues facing women today: equality, motherhood, feminism, beauty, culture, women at work, women in the global economy, changing households, domestic violence, time budgets, children, lesbian rights, women in government, and more.

Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo

Margot Mifflin

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Interesting info on two fascinating subjects 5 out of 5 stars.
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Ok, I love women and I love tattoos. While my "woman" history is nobody's business but my own, I can say that I got my first tattoo at age 52 (8 years ago--you do the math) and now have a body full. Early on in my tat career, I devoured every book and mag I could find, looking for ideas (some would say "validation") and, frankly,got tired of the semi-salacious boob shots. I KNEW there was more to it than that (not that I mind boob shots, but that's another review)and this book really tells the story. While every woman under 40, and a good many over 50, that I meet has ink somewhere on her body these days, this book discusses the historical precedents in interesting and informative ways. It won't convert a "tattoo hater", and it won't be even remotely interesting to someone who isn't fascinated by tats, but those of us who are decorated MUST have this one in the library, betweenThe Tattooed Woman and Masters of Tattoo.

Editorial Review:

A fascinating excursion into a thriving subculture, this book explores the feminist significance of tattoos, noting that women's involvement with tattoo accelerated in both the suffragist '20s and the feminist '70s. Author Margot Mifflin uncovers the subversive relationship between women and tattoo, from society ladies who want to sever their identification with "natural" beauty, to the healing powers that tattoo's color and symbolism can provide for a mastectomy survivor. 100 photos, some in color.

The Secret Currency of Love: The Unabashed Truth About Women, Money, and Relationships

Hilary Black

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Money. It affects us all, so why is it so difficult to discuss? Even as daily headlines broadcast ever more alarming news about the fate of the American economy, few people are willing to acknowledge the enormous impact that personal finance has on their private affairs. Until now.

In this compelling anthology of original essays, some of the country's most respected women writers reveal their deepest feelings about money and how it affects their most intimate relationships—with parents, children, spouses, siblings, and ultimately with themselves. They examine the childhood experiences that set up lifelong, and sometimes self-destructive, financial habits. And they divulge how all the intangibles—romance, status, power, security—become tangled up in their financial lives.

The essays in these pages are written from many different perspectives: a single woman trying to reconcile feminism with a secret desire to be supported by a man; a wife with radically different spending habits from her husband's; a divorcée who has become the family's chief breadwinner; a single mother struggling to make ends meet. They also explore complicated social issues. Sheri Holman (The Dress Lodger) reveals how she fell in love with a homeless drug addict. Leslie Bennetts (The Feminine Mistake) weighs the social and emotional costs of giving her children a private-school education among the super-rich. Bliss Broyard (One Drop) ruminates on the intricacies of maintaining friendships with wealthier friends. And Amy Cohen (The Late Bloomer's Revolution) considers the price—financial and otherwise—of having a child on her own.

Witty, nuanced, and startlingly intimate, The Secret Currency of Love offers a transformative look at the delicate nature of love and money. This riveting collection will spark debate by inspiring readers to reexamine their own emotional connection to their finances. As Americans struggle to make rational choices in a frightening economy, these brave, revealing essays by some of today's most esteemed writers provide insight into how a modern generation of women is defining itself in the new social economy.

The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices

Xinran Xue

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Total reviews: 42 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Amazing 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I read this book feeling my heart hurt many times. It has given me a much better perspective of the hardship many Chinese women must contend with after the Cultural Revolution.

Editorial Review:

When Deng Xiaoping’s efforts to “open up” China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognized an invaluable opportunity. As an employee for the state radio system, she had long wanted to help improve the lives of Chinese women. But when she was given clearance to host a radio call-in show, she barely anticipated the enthusiasm it would quickly generate. Operating within the constraints imposed by government censors, “Words on the Night Breeze” sparked a tremendous outpouring, and the hours of tape on her answering machines were soon filled every night. Whether angry or muted, posing questions or simply relating experiences, these anonymous women bore witness to decades of civil strife, and of halting attempts at self-understanding in a painfully restrictive society. In this collection, by turns heartrending and inspiring, Xinran brings us the stories that affected her most, and offers a graphically detailed, altogether unprecedented work of oral history.