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Wonder women sex, power, and the quest for perfection

"In this groundbreaking and compulsively readable book, Spar explores how American women's lives have -- and have not -- changed over the past fifty years. Armed with reams of new research, she details how women struggled for power and instead got stuck in an endless quest for perfection....

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Main Author: Spar, Debora L.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Sarah Crichton Books, c2013.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Women > Social conditions.
Feminism.
Women's rights.
Equality.
Summary: "In this groundbreaking and compulsively readable book, Spar explores how American women's lives have -- and have not -- changed over the past fifty years. Armed with reams of new research, she details how women struggled for power and instead got stuck in an endless quest for perfection. The challenges confronting women are more complex than ever, and they are challenges that come inherently and inevitably from being female. Spar is acutely aware that it's time to change course. Both deeply personal and statistically rich, Wonder Women is Spar's story and the story of our culture. It is cultural history at its best, and a road map for the future."--Amazon.com
Physical Description: 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-289) and index)
ISBN: 9780374298753
0374298750
Author Notes: Debora L. Spar is the president of Barnard College, a women's undergraduate college affiliated with Columbia University. She received her doctorate in government from Harvard University and was the Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Spar is the author of numerous books, including Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Invention, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet and The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception .

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