What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, PowerWhat do women want? is a book of inspiration, humor, and provocation - an intimate conversation between the reader and Erica Jong. In these personal statements Jong addresses many of the questions that concern women and men today: Are women better off today than they were twenty-five years ago? What was Princess Diana's importance to women? Has Hillary Clinton prepared us for a woman president? Why do powerful women evoke ambivalence? Why do mothers continue to be blamed for working outside the home? How does the mother-daughter dialectic influence cycles of feminism and backlash? What is the relationship of pornography to the creative spirit? Who is the perfect man? What constitutes sex appeal? |
Contents
chapter one My Mother My Daughter and Me | 3 |
The Vicissitudes | 11 |
chapter three Monster Mommies | 29 |
Copyright | |
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