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...power, female candidates must still make concessions because of their gender. Marzia Mohammadi, 30, a medical doctor and one of seven candidates aiming to fill the seat set aside for women representing the province in parliament, had to get permission from her husband, as well as from the other male members of her extended family, in order to run. Unable to take public transport alone, she has had to hire a jeep and driver to take her out to the remote villages that make up her constituency, and because her own village is so far away, she has rented...
...nation's men, the constitution of Afghanistan, instituted in January 2004, has mandated that at least a quarter of the elected posts be reserved for women?putting the country ahead of Australia, Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. in terms of female representation in government. The names of male and female candidates will appear together on the ballots, but the female candidates with the most votes are guaranteed seats, even if they do worse than their male counterparts. Afghanistan's women have enthusiastically embraced the quota. "Women are smarter than men," says Aqbalzada. "We may not understand politics...
...novel or shocking. Nor does it astonish in its insights. The transaction between a hooker and a john is not complex. The women are justifiably contemptuous of their clients, who are mostly in wan pursuit of dismal fantasies. To imply that this is a paradigm of the male-female relationship is closer to feminist propaganda than to home truth...
...major turning point in their lives." Men in a midlife crisis are usually pictured as balding and paunchy. In contrast, the women you featured are all attractive and in shape. They seem empowered by their crises. The disparity of all that is enough to make me question my male existence. Perhaps I'll buy a boat and go looking for the real me. It seems to be the thing to do. David White Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, U.S. The onset of middle age does not have to be a crisis; it can be an opportunity. Women of the baby-boom generation should...
...motives - like Paul, who begins to wonder if his charity towards the Jokics is motivated less by paternalism than by Marijana's shapely legs: "How does love work among the animals? ? Are there such things as shapely legs among lady spiders, and does their attractive force puzzle the male spider as it draws him in?" Paul will continue to ask such questions, and like her author's id, Elizabeth Costello will continue to sally forth. In this way, Slow Man is more literary hare than tortoise, showing why Coetzee continues to be fiction's quixotic knight...