Word: chapterful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Staying just far enough away from reality to parody it, Berliguer and the Professor mocks the present in its vision of the future. The irony lies heavy from the first chapter. Milan is referred to as "the natural shelter for all American, German and Swiss capital drawn by the stability of our currency." The "I" of the book, a secretary of Fanfani (the former head of the Christian Democrat party) who decides to write the history of the "compromise" finds it "impossible to view with indifference the achievement of a sixteenth subway line, which, together with eleven elevated highways...
...Like any other group that works together closely, there are times that are difficult, in one individual's life. We work very slowly," Berger says, describing the process by which most of the book was written. Several women research the information for a chapter, one writes it up, shows it to the others for comments and criticism, and takes it back to work some more. "There'll be times when the people in New York are demanding we get something done by the next day, and we'll just have to say we can't do it, because someone...
...Kentucky, and the second edition contains a lot of material they say was prompted by letters asking for information. "People treat us as if they'd known us for a long time," Berger says. "One letter came criticizing us--and rightly--for not having anything in any of our chapter about women who have their babies and have to give them up for adoption; but the tone of the letter was hurt, as if we were old friends who had let her down...
Because many of the areas the Bodies, Ourselves group deal with had never been fully explored by the people they refer to somewhat off-handedly as 'the' experts,' much of their research has to be done first-hand, through personal interviews and surveys. Berger describes putting together the chapter on aging that appears in the second edition. She sent out hundreds of questionnaires, she says, and she was amazed at the responses she received. Women between the ages of 20 and 40--women who are supposed to be at the height of their sexual activity--complained far more frequently...
...different from those of a white middle class American, the collective wants to reach them, those experiences have to be incorporated into the Spanish version and dealt with. The same kind of problem came up in the Japanese translation, although Berger says less was done to alter it--the chapter on being gay was simply removed to avoid offending anyone. The only thing the Boston Women's Health Collective holds on to in the foreign publications, is the right to insure that a group of feminists have control over the publication, and the Boston group retains the right to reject...