The Superwoman Myth

Author : Jennifer Loh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000529932
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Superwoman Myth written by Jennifer Loh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book begins by raising a thoughtful question, "Can women have it all, family, work and everything in between?" If yes, then are women ‘superwomen’? More importantly, what or who is a ‘superwoman’? In other words, this book discusses the role of contemporary women in today’s modern career world and its myriad of challenges, and in turn explores the nuanced role of millennial women and provides insights into how women juggle demands at home and at work; family and career management. Using case studies from interviews with two hundred women, the authors draw on data from women themselves to explore how they navigate their daily lives to achieve work-life balance. This book will motivate readers to reframe their roles at home and in the workplace and hopefully help them reclaim control in their career/family journeys. This book is also an essential guide to thought leadership for women in leadership positions or aspiring to be in leadership positions. Finally, this book will demystify gender roles in the workplace and at home, enabling women of all ages and backgrounds to embark on their career with confidence. This book will motivate younger women who are embarking on their first career and looking to develop the inner leadership that helps them thrive in life.

Author : Michele Wallace
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781688230
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman written by Michele Wallace and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1978, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman caused a storm of controversy. Michele Wallace blasted the masculine biases of the black politics that emerged from the sixties. She described how women remained marginalized by the patriarchal culture of Black Power, demonstrating the ways in which a genuine female subjectivity was blocked by the traditional myths of black womanhood. With a foreword that examines the debate the book has sparked between intellectuals and political leaders, as well as what has—and, crucially, has not—changed over the last four decades, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman continues to be deeply relevant to current feminist debates and black theory today.

Author : Michele Wallace
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859842966
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman written by Michele Wallace and published by Verso. This book was released on 1999 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1978, this book caused a storm of controversy as Michele Wallace blasted the masculinist bias of the black politics that emerged from the sixties. She described how women remained marginalized by the patriarchal culture of Black Power and the ways in which a genuine female subjectivity was blocked by the traditional myths of black womanhood. In 1990 the author added a new introduction examining the debate the book had sparked between intellectuals and political leaders; an extensive bibliography of contemporary black feminist studies was also added. Black Macho raised issues and arguments that framed the terms of current feminist and black theory and continues to be relevant today.

Author : Resa L. Dudovitz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000652386
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Superwoman written by Resa L. Dudovitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviled by critics but loved by the readers, the bestseller has until recently provoked little serious critical interest. In The Myth of Superwoman, originally published in 1990, Resa Dudovitz looks at this international phenomenon, particularly at the origins of the bestseller system in the United States and France. Her cross-cultural study, including interviews with publishers, literary agents, and bestselling authors, gives a lively picture of the contrasting ways in which the bestseller is produced, marketed, and received in two countries. It pays special attention to the ‘international bestsellers’ of the 1980s, to writers like Judith Krantz, Colleen McCullough, and Barbara Taylor Bradford, all of whose novels are published in the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy. The book presents a general analysis of women’s bestsellers, ranging over a wide variety of novels, from popular nineteenth-century texts in France and the United States to the novels of today. Dudovitz shows how women’s bestselling fiction has, over the last two hundred years, kept pace with the social evolution of contemporary women, culminating in the myth of superwoman in women’s bestsellers of the 1980s. This fascinating account of an important aspect of popular culture will be of great value to students of women’s studies and cultural studies, especially those interested in the myths which structure women’s bestselling fiction.

Author : Debora L. Spar
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN 13 : 1429944536
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wonder Women written by Debora L. Spar and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act, why are women still living in a man's world? Debora L. Spar never thought of herself as a feminist. Raised after the tumult of the 1960s, she presumed the gender war was over. As one of the youngest female professors to be tenured at Harvard Business School and a mother of three, she swore to young women that they could have it all. "We thought we could just glide into the new era of equality, with babies, board seats, and husbands in tow," she writes. "We were wrong." Now she is the president of Barnard College, arguably the most important all-women's college in the United States. And in Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection—a fresh, wise, original book— she asks why, a half century after the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, do women still feel stuck. 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.

Author : Vicki Courtney
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0805430547
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virtuous Woman written by Vicki Courtney and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2004 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years Christian women have struggled to understand what the Proverbs 31 woman is all about. Is this the ideal woman, or an outdated fixture of the past. Courtney explains that this passage is not in the Bible by accident, and that a virtuous woman is a rare find in today's world.

Author : Michele Wallace
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780446309585
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman written by Michele Wallace and published by Grand Central Pub. This book was released on 1983-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her analysis of the sexual dynamics of the transition from civil rights to black liberation, Wallace charges that black leadership has defined itself in sexual rather than political or economic terms

Author : Patricia Sprinkle
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780310215158
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Who Do Too Much written by Patricia Sprinkle and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patricia Houck Sprinkle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780310537786
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women who Do Too Much written by Patricia Houck Sprinkle and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows the woman who does too much how to do less by tackling the larger issues of goals and commitments and listening to God.

Author : Faith Ringgold
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781517572662
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Letter to My Daughter, Michele written by Faith Ringgold and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a deafening silence around this book since I wrote it in 1980, 35 years ago. Why is Mother not allowed the freedom of speech to critique daughter? Is daughter perfect or is it Mother who is undeniably flawed? Lets find out why Daughter can critique Mother but Mother must and has maintained a deafening silence? Why is this? What is this? - Faith Ringgold A Letter to My Daughter, Michele, is a mother's truth about her daughter's version of Feminism in the pages of, Black Macho and the Myth of the Super Woman by Michele Wallace, 1979. Faith Ringgold analyses, reviews and criticizes her daughters best selling book line by line and calls out the 70's feminist rhetoric, generalities, stereotypes and lies.