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Rousseau on Women, Love, and Family is an anthology of works by French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau covering five themes—women and politics, gender identity, women, love, and family. The volume was edited by authors, Christopher Kelly and Eve Grace.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking is a 2012 nonfiction book written by American author and speaker Susan Cain.Cain argues that modern Western culture misunderstands and undervalues the traits and capabilities of introverted people, leading to "a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness."
[27] She further asserts that the relationship between a Black man and a Black woman is significantly different from the relationship between a white man and a white woman, because the white woman battles the white man for subjugating her, but the black woman battles all oppressive forces that subjugate her, her children, and the black man.
The incisive mining of these inner conflicts and identity crises — how to exist in a society that expects you to be a God-fearing, family-oriented woman, when such labels no longer apply — is ...
Women in Ancient Greece wore himations; and in Ancient Rome women wore the palla, a rectangular mantle, and the maphorion. [54] The typical feminine outfit of aristocratic women of the Renaissance was an undershirt with a gown and a high-waisted overgown, and a plucked forehead and beehive or turban-style hairdo. [54]
It is a refreshing change of pace to read fiction where women are allowed to reckon with ugliness that comes with power and agency." [8] The Lagos Review said that "Many of Pemi’s stories are family-oriented, particularly reflecting the typical African family dynamic. Many of her characters become easily relatable in that they embody the ...
John Gittings wrote that the book went "far beyond the stereotypes offered both by the communist regime and its critics" and that it probed the "tensions between a new 'socialist' emphasis on women's participation in economic and political life and a relatively unchallenged structure of gender and generational relationships in the family."
Furthermore, these attitudes tend to hold across the life course, and boil down to three main types: career-oriented, family-oriented, and a combination of both work and family. Research shows that family-oriented women have the most children, and work-oriented women have the least, or none at all, although causality remains unclear.