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Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World
Linda R. Hirshman

Viking Adult, 2006 - 112 pages

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Strongly Feminist

Very interesting points, but a little too strong for my blood. I think if a woman wants to stay home, that's her decision. It's not the right choice for me, but no one can make that decision for anyone else.


Life

This is a must read for all women. My friend gave me a copy and I read it in one afternoon. I have bought several copies and gave to my friends. The author is brutally honest and very logical in her writing, of course, with her legal background. If you are looking for warm and fuzzy feelings, this is not the book. Thanks to the author's clear depiction of all the various arguments that is out there.


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yes, but how?

As a stay-at-home mom with three young children, I enjoyed this book almost at a fantasy level. Going to work seems so much easier some days. My criticism is that most all of this has been said, and more completely, in a book like Perfect Madness, by Judith Warner. Hirshman's book would be good for a young woman who would like to stick to her career, before she chooses a major or falls in love with her would-be husband. Her strategy at keeping women working requires almost that the working woman's husband is not career oriented. And too much is made of housework without the obvious solution being mentioned even once: full-time household help. I understand the latter is tentatively politically incorrect, as well as prohibitively expensive, but if one is going to go so far as to mention marriages potentially breaking up over the issue, the obvious solution should at least be mentioned.

A fine book, but doesn't really offer anything groundbreaking. Yes, being home with toddlers is mind numbing at times and can contribute to feelings of despair, but it is a brief phase and these are our children. They will grow and as was once said, there is world enough, and time.


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When Linda R. Hirshman published an article called ?Homeward Bound? in last December?s American Prospect, she fully intended to reignite the dying embers of feminism?s fire. But the ensuing maelstrom of criticism and applause from national op-ed columnists like David Brooks in The New York Times to mothers?stay-at-home and working mothers alike? surprised even her. Suddenly, the retired professor of philosophy and women?s studies is at the center of an increasingly hot debate on sexual politics. With Get to Work, Hirshman expands her now-infamous call for all women to realize the ideal of economic independence and self-determination.

Examining the trend of affluent, educated women abandoning their careers in order to raise children, Hirshman has concluded that the real glass ceiling that?s barring women from success in the workplace is in their own homes. Why, forty years after The Feminine Mystique, do men and women assign the low-level and generally unrewarding jobs of housekeeping and child rearing to women? The time is ripe for a new feminist revolution based on values and quality of life, not some false promise of ?choice.? Get to Work will lead the national discussion as Hirshman lays out a strategic plan to help women rediscover that their place is not necessarily in the kitchen.


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