The Female Thing: Exploring Dirt, Sex, Envy & Vulnerability - Women's Psychology & Self-Discovery Book for Personal Growth & Empowerment
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The Female Thing: Exploring Dirt, Sex, Envy & Vulnerability - Women's Psychology & Self-Discovery Book for Personal Growth & Empowerment
The Female Thing: Exploring Dirt, Sex, Envy & Vulnerability - Women's Psychology & Self-Discovery Book for Personal Growth & Empowerment
The Female Thing: Exploring Dirt, Sex, Envy & Vulnerability - Women's Psychology & Self-Discovery Book for Personal Growth & Empowerment
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In the female psyche nowadays, “contradictions speckle the landscape, like ingrown hairs after a bad bikini wax.” So writes Laura Kipnis, author of the widely acclaimed polemic Against Love. With “the gleeful viperish wit of Dorothy Parker” (Slate), Kipnis now offers a fresh and provocative assessment of the female condition in the post-post-feminist world of the twenty-first century. For every advance toward sexual equality on the part of women in recent years, she argues, some new impediment just “seems” to appear. Ironically, feminism ran up against an unanticipated opponent: the inner woman. An ambitious and original reassessment of feminism and women’s ambivalence about it, The Female Thing brims with bracing and funny social observations informed by psychological acuity. For all the upbeat “You go, girl” slogans, women remain caught between feminism and femininity, between self-affirmation and an endless quest for self-improvement, between playing the injured party and claiming independence. Feminism is bedeviled by the same impasses and contradictions it seeks to rectify. But rather than blaming the usual suspects–men, the media–Kipnis takes a hard look at culprits closer to home, namely women themselves and their complicity in upholding male privilege, even as they resent men deeply for it. Which makes relations between the sexes rather thorny at the moment, and Kipnis serves up the gory details of the mutual displeasure between men and women in painfully hilarious detail. In the tradition of The Feminine Mystique and The Female Eunuch, this is a pathbreaking work. As audacious as it is historically and socially grounded, The Female Thing explores age-old quandaries: the war between the sexes, what women “really” want, and to what extent anatomy is destiny after all.
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Fantastic Book and every male needs to read.Where else can you get a sense of the history and current situation for the opposite sex in less than 200 pages without a lot of personal opinions and with good references. I have been doing a lot of reading on this subject, at least trying to. The history is just as import and the current situation, because it helps in understanding what is going on now.From my past reading it is clear that she has done some reading and research.The fact that she is able to tell all that she tells in the number of pages is just incredible.While I have read the other reviews and they seem more like expert technocrats completely fixated with truth and validity as opposed to content and understanding. Maybe for them the purpose is to further their own feelings about their microscopic disection of the female condition for that matter the human condition because we can't have one without the other.She is not saying that if men just did more house work the problem would be solved, she is not saying that if men just talked more and expressed their feelings the problem would be solved. As one reviewer pointed out the dissapointment of no conclusion, but for me me that was the best part. If one wants conclusions than go to the talk shows or other quick fix sites.So now I have a book that I can give to another male to read, not too long, and actually very interesting that he can read instead of how to improve his golf game. A book that he will probably read (not too long in pages or in opinions). A book that when done one can then discuss. A book that I can even give to my wife to read.By the way, she knows I read and I have read to her some of the parts of course selected parts. We all know how that works. She said at one point that she does not want me to say, see your V is dirty that is why you like to clean. Not the point of the book.So guys out there this is a must read, women too. I think that every human should read. This book needs to be on everyone's list to read. Does she miss some things, yes but the book is less than 200 pages what do you expect.The two important things that I wish she addressed was the male "O" intensity issue and the aspect pre-birth control. In some societies women wanted men to go find short term pleasure some place else because the result for them were no such a healthfull thing long term. Then on the intensity of the "O" not all the same. So saying that men always can fall short in helping understand. Then significance of this being that birth control in our human existence is a relatively new thing and we forget about this.So if you looking for answers... well look somewhere else.But please read anyway... Must....

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