A collection of personal reflections of the author's life explore the conflicts involved in being a feminist and assesses the threats to women and the reasons for hope
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e had in mind, when my friends and I threw away our bras, was power. We wanted the world to widen to women. We wanted more respect, higher wages, better marriages than our mothers', bigger lives than any generation of women had ever known."<br><br>"We had big plans for men, too. The more optimistic among us envisioned a new breed of men who would cook and cry, go to therapy and diaper babies, assist us in achieving the multiple orgasms we so deserved, and then pop out of bed to clean the bathroom."<br><br>Meredith Maran's first book, <i>What It's Like to Live Now</i>, was an amazingly candid and often hilarious memoir of her journey from a sixties idealist to a nineties new woman, complete with two teenage sons, a female lover, and a hefty mortgage. Now, with the same reckless honesty, she returns to explore life--hers and ours, female and male--in the wake of the women's movement.<br><br>Today we earn more money than o
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Printing. Amid the clatter of debate about what feminism is and isn't, Meredith Maran's funny poignant stories reveal, in real-life terms, the battle women have won and those they're still fighting. Hardcover, xiii, 256 pp., unclipped jacket. Minimal wear, unmarked, bright and clean throughout, tight binding, nice jacket. Seller Inventory # 017195
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