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What do women want? : bread, roses, sex, power / Erica Jong.

By: Publication details: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1998.Description: xvi, 202 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0060183764
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.4/0973 21
Contents:
Preface: What Do Women Want? -- Pt. 1. Power. Ch. 1. My Mother, My Daughter, and Me. Ch. 2. Crust Lady: The Vicissitudes of Being Hillary Rodham Clinton. Ch. 3. Monster Mommies. Ch. 4. Why I Want to Be a Witch. Ch. 5. Blood and Guts: A Woman Writer in the Late Twentieth Century. Ch. 6. Jane Eyre's Unbroken Will. Ch. 7. Princess as Icon. Ch. 8. Face-off at the Millennium -- Pt. 2. Sex. Ch. 9. Lolita Turns Thirty. Ch. 10. Deliberate Lewdness and the Creative Imagination: Should We Censor Pornography? Ch. 11. Incest and Anais Nin. Ch. 12. Good-bye to Henry-San. Ch. 13. Creativity Versus Maternity. Ch. 14. The Perfect Man. Ch. 15. Quest for Stiffness. Ch. 16. What Is Sex Appeal? Ch. 17. The President's Penis -- Pt. 3. Bread & Roses. Ch. 18. My Italy. Ch. 19. Venice, in Particular. Ch. 20. Writing for Love. Ch. 21. Gestations. Ch. 22. Yeats's Glade and Basho's Bee: The Impossibility of Doing Without Poetry. Ch. 23. Books and Houses. Ch. 24. Coming Home to Connecticut.
Summary: What do women want? is a book of inspiration, humor, and provocation - an intimate conversation between the reader and Erica Jong. In these personal statements Jong addresses many of the questions that concern women and men today: Are women better off today than they were twenty-five years ago? What was Princess Diana's importance to women? Has Hillary Clinton prepared us for a woman president? Why do powerful women evoke ambivalence? Why do mothers continue to be blamed for working outside the home? How does the mother-daughter dialectic influence cycles of feminism and backlash? What is the relationship of pornography to the creative spirit? Who is the perfect man? What constitutes sex appeal? With her characteristic wit and her refreshing refusal to bow down before political correctness, Erica Jong tackles these and other issues.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library 305.4 JON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 61330

Preface: What Do Women Want? -- Pt. 1. Power. Ch. 1. My Mother, My Daughter, and Me. Ch. 2. Crust Lady: The Vicissitudes of Being Hillary Rodham Clinton. Ch. 3. Monster Mommies. Ch. 4. Why I Want to Be a Witch. Ch. 5. Blood and Guts: A Woman Writer in the Late Twentieth Century. Ch. 6. Jane Eyre's Unbroken Will. Ch. 7. Princess as Icon. Ch. 8. Face-off at the Millennium -- Pt. 2. Sex. Ch. 9. Lolita Turns Thirty. Ch. 10. Deliberate Lewdness and the Creative Imagination: Should We Censor Pornography? Ch. 11. Incest and Anais Nin. Ch. 12. Good-bye to Henry-San. Ch. 13. Creativity Versus Maternity. Ch. 14. The Perfect Man. Ch. 15. Quest for Stiffness. Ch. 16. What Is Sex Appeal? Ch. 17. The President's Penis -- Pt. 3. Bread & Roses. Ch. 18. My Italy. Ch. 19. Venice, in Particular. Ch. 20. Writing for Love. Ch. 21. Gestations. Ch. 22. Yeats's Glade and Basho's Bee: The Impossibility of Doing Without Poetry. Ch. 23. Books and Houses. Ch. 24. Coming Home to Connecticut.

What do women want? is a book of inspiration, humor, and provocation - an intimate conversation between the reader and Erica Jong. In these personal statements Jong addresses many of the questions that concern women and men today: Are women better off today than they were twenty-five years ago? What was Princess Diana's importance to women? Has Hillary Clinton prepared us for a woman president? Why do powerful women evoke ambivalence? Why do mothers continue to be blamed for working outside the home? How does the mother-daughter dialectic influence cycles of feminism and backlash? What is the relationship of pornography to the creative spirit? Who is the perfect man? What constitutes sex appeal? With her characteristic wit and her refreshing refusal to bow down before political correctness, Erica Jong tackles these and other issues.

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