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...Connubial blisters form right after the ceremony, on the newlyweds' drive from San Francisco down to a Mexican resort. Lila knows the words to every song on the radio and brays them at peak pitch. (Could Eddie not have tuned in to something more soothing, like Rush Limbaugh?) In bed, Lila's lovemaking is suspiciously professional: her moves include the Inverted Corkscrew, the Swedish helicopter and the Jackhammer, and she's given to screaming, "F--- me like a black guy, Eddie!" (On the plus side, she got his name right.) By the time Lila has disregarded Eddie's warnings about...
...technologically advanced version of catcalling. In the wake of these whispered phone calls, it’s foolish to ask why the police won’t act. Instead, we should ask why it is that women can be so easily made to feel unsafe and what would drive a man to this petty serial stalking...
...sometimes-difficult inner life has proved to be the most interesting aspect of this book’s publication. Despite her status as a well-known feminist, Pollitt refrained from conveying a message about the current state of feminism through the book. “Learning to Drive,” she says, is about sharing her life experience openly. “We think that because we live in an age of comparative sexual frankness, we live in an age of openness,” she says. “It is not true. When it comes to living...
...reading against the grain.A PRESENT CONSTRUCTIONWhile Ulrich’s book encompasses everyone from Amazons to abolitionists, it returns again and again to the texts of three prominent writers in women’s history—Christine de Pizan, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Virginia Woolf—to drive home her view that history is a dialogue between present and past.“As I like to tell my students, history is not the moldy old facts. We create history out of the sources that survive from the past,” she said. “These...
...climate change has won, U.S. greens have so far failed to achieve national political action on the issue--and the authors insist that won't change as long as environmentalism remains wedded to what they call the "politics of limits." Mandatory emission cuts alone won't be enough to drive the kind of innovation needed to break the world of its fossil-fuel habit--and China and India will never sign on to caps that could limit economic growth. Instead, Nordhaus and Shellenberger argue for Apollo-program-style government investment in clean-energy research, on the order of $30 billion...