This book was initially published in 1989 but has some revisions from 2008. The discussions of gender strategies and the “myths” we create in our own homes to make the family work (or not) is rocking my world.
What myths have I created to justify how my family functions? Are they serving me and the rest of my family or should I rephrase my reality to better serve us all?
Next up in my self-guided women and gender studies course.
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I‘m at page 177. I‘m on the edge of my seat over the last 50 pages and reading feels akin to watching car crash. 😳🫣😳🫣
Happy International Women‘s Day.
May there be a time when women don‘t need a special day or a month because they are always treated as full human beings.
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What should I read next?!?!?!!?
This is the kind of book you want to keep near you just in case you have a spare minute to read a page.
pickThere are some heart wrenching letters in here. But the ones that got me were the ones that hit closest to home.
I‘m taking these two on vacation with me next week.
Immigrant stories are really speaking to me right now even though I feel like I need to continue my women‘s studies course.
I wasn‘t getting anything done at home. So I came to a local coffee shop for thank you note writing and some reading.
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This book is a bit farther off the women and gender studies mark than I expected. But I‘m muddling through.
The documentary was great! Watch it with your partner!!
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I was fairly indifferent to the work of the Gates‘ Foundation but now I have a new found respect and admiration for Melinda French Gates. I can‘t wait to se what else she does.
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Bit of a shopping spree but no fiction!
🤪😜😜😜😬🥴
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New dog, who dis?
No name yet. But welcome to the family, pup!
Continuing my self guided course on women studies…
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so-soShine theory. I love it.
2025 reading challenge:
50 books
Book buying limited to non-fiction and rarer books
2024 wrap up:
41 books read
24 fiction
17 non-fiction
Favorites: More Work for Mother, Mother Tongue, Poverty by America, The Best of Everything
“To sincerely adopt the psychology of tokenism, you have to sell your own community out. That‘s the dark underbelly of the thing. Instead of blaming institutions rules and social attitudes of those around you for the absence of other people like you, you blame your own community.”
💯💯💯💯
also: I don‘t know why the picture is red.
‘Tis the season of reading all the short books to improve the year‘s reading stats.
The older I get the more I realize how much of my own culture has been lost to time in the name of assimilation and the search for safety.
pick10/10.
Can someone tell Traister to publish an updated edition? I really want her take on the country six years later. Maybe she‘ll wait for the mid term elections?
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Please teach me about my anger.
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From the “pay what you wish” cart at the library. Going to give it to my dad.
I really like “Such A Fun Age”. I hope I really like this one too. But the current 67% rating has me nervous.
I‘m also assuming that stories will never take place during 2020 again. Or at least for a long while.
IYKYK
I decided that I should own more of the women‘s studies books that I am reading so I can *gasp* write in them.
But I‘m going to return “who‘s afraid of gender” because I think I can find it used and I‘ll feel better writing in a preloved copy.
Could you ever write in a book?
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pickA+
Hard to return this one to the library. Even though we‘ve had it for months.
As of page 147: I do not like Cameron at all. But I‘ll finish the book anyway.
Trying to convince the bigger bookworm that she can read this book.
Let‘s see how I do. 🤞🤞
I‘m ready to be done with this book. It‘s literally too big.
Now my TBR:
Here‘re the issues:
1) 2024 is about alternating fiction and nonfiction
2) I have a lot of books out from the library. Including a lot that have a lot of holds.
3) I‘m going on vacation should I focus on finishing the enormous book?
Which issue to do I prioritize with my next book selection??! HELP!!
“Cooking “ dinner aka hiding from the tiny bookworms.
I can‘t resist an early novel especially not one written by a French woman!
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Feel free to like or comment on my accomplishment.
🤓😋🤪😜😝🤓😋🤪
I‘m in the middle of three books. It‘s safe to say I‘m in a mid-summer reading slump.
“Between religion and knowledge, he said, one must choose knowledge.
What a preposterous thing for anyone who knows anything about Jewish history to say, one comment read.”
Hilarious.
Laughing out loud funny!
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And just as many on my TBR from this list.
