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Moving Beyond Words: Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking Boundaries of Gender

1995Gloria Steinem

4.5/5

I found Steinem's writing witty and thought-provoking. I appreciate both her frank honesty and her inclusive generosity. My favorite section BY FAR is "What if Freud were Phyllis?" in which she uses gender reversal as a tool to show how absurd some of his theories (and our current beliefs) are. The middle section wasn't nearly as engaging, but I did learn some new things and appreciated the paradigm shifts presented. I LOVED the chapter "Doing Sixty." I loved her perspective on change as a position of strength rather than compromise or a backing down of sorts. "It's taken me a long time to realize that when I said so defiantly at fifty, 'I'm going to go right on doing everything I did at thirty or forty,' this was not progress. I was refusing to change, and thus robbing myself of the future...for women like us, defiance for defiance's sake is the political version of a face-lift--a denial of chance." For me, the first and last sections were so great that I'd give the book five stars regardless of what was in between.
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