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Selfindulgent attempt to paint motherhood as the only true way to personal female fulfillment. Please disregard this book's premise completely.
This created quite the controversy when it was released!
This created quite the controversy when it was released!
This created quite the controversy when it was released!
This created quite the controversy when it was released!
This created quite the controversy when it was released!
Makes the claim that young women need to be as strategic about creating their desired personal lives as they are about creating their desired professional lives. States the obvious at many points and cites research data that doesn't strike me as particularly rigorous, but raises very important issues nonetheless.
Makes the claim that young women need to be as strategic about creating their desired personal lives as they are about creating their desired professional lives. States the obvious at many points and cites research data that doesn't strike me as particularly rigorous, but raises very important issues nonetheless.
Scary statistics on late-life fertility -- it's not as good as the news media and fertility industry would have you believe.
Scary statistics on late-life fertility -- it's not as good as the news media and fertility industry would have you believe.
Good book that basically says plan, plan, plan!
Around the Year Book Challenge Item #9: A book mentioned in another bookSo, this challenge item was mightily easy for me. One of my biggest problems when I read non-fiction is that non-fiction tends to cite other works, and by the time I've finished one non-fiction book, I've got a list of 10 more on the same subject that I want to read. That's how I came across this book, which was definitely mentioned in Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness, and was also p...
Around the Year Book Challenge Item #9: A book mentioned in another bookSo, this challenge item was mightily easy for me. One of my biggest problems when I read non-fiction is that non-fiction tends to cite other works, and by the time I've finished one non-fiction book, I've got a list of 10 more on the same subject that I want to read. That's how I came across this book, which was definitely mentioned in Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness, and was also p...
Really thought-provoking, but I also thought it got a bit too radically feminist at times. I agree that women need to figure out how to have families and careers, but toward the end, it got to be too altruistic and idealistic to the point where I was starting to dismiss the earlier (excellent) points.
Really thought-provoking, but I also thought it got a bit too radically feminist at times. I agree that women need to figure out how to have families and careers, but toward the end, it got to be too altruistic and idealistic to the point where I was starting to dismiss the earlier (excellent) points.
Really thought-provoking, but I also thought it got a bit too radically feminist at times. I agree that women need to figure out how to have families and careers, but toward the end, it got to be too altruistic and idealistic to the point where I was starting to dismiss the earlier (excellent) points.