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Title: Catfight : Rivalries Among Women--from Diets to Dating, from the Boardroom to the Delivery Room by Leora Tanenbaum ISBN: 0-06-052838-9 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING ABOUT "CATFIGHT"
Comment: "Engrossing." -- The New York Observer
"CATFIGHT represents an important wave of feminist literature... offering valuable, multilayered, introspective, and solidly researched insight into [important] societal questions. The strength of [Tanenbaum's] very original criticism and approach is to illuminate how women experience competition in different areas of life and with different intensities than men do." -- The Chicago Tribune
"Fascinating, chatty." -- New York Post
"A thoughtful and thoroughly engaging writer, Tanenbaum offers not cold sociological interpretation, but earnest encouragement. CATFIGHTT addresses...the heavyhearted suspicion that the same feminist battles we've been fighting for years could well go on forever. There's a lot of bravery here; the book will surely prompt conversations between women and take some of the taboo out of the subject of competition." -- Women's Review of Books
"[CATFIGHT's] approach to the contradictions between feminist rhetoric and women's real experiences is sure to attract even more attention for this fast-rising social critic." -- Publishers Weekly
"Tanenbaum's inquiry...blends well-documented research, interviews, and personal reflection in a lively, accessible style." -- Library Journal
"Tanenbaum relates her own experiences and interviews a variety of women and psychologists to explore the seemingly eternal adversarial relationships that exist among women despite many recent feminist gains." -- Booklist
"Tanenbaum's prose is provocative.... She succeeds beautifully at getting women to think about the role competition plays in their daily lives." -- San Francisco Bay Guardian
"Tanenbaum's best when grappling with the conflicting demands of work and children. She describes the isolation of motherhood with particular care." -- Village Voice
"CATFIGHT is an incisive exploration of a long-taboo subject--how and why women sabotage one another. Tanenbaum is a witty young woman, wise beyond her years. Her insights and lively stories explain the essence of women's resentment of other women; how to spot sabotage by the Other Woman; why rape victims are often disbelieved even by women friends; and much more. Since competition is a learned behavior, not innate, Tanenbaum is able to guide us toward healthy competition. CATFIGHT will prompt women to confront--and cure--their own feelings of competitiveness." -- Gail Sheehy
Rating: 1
Summary: Psuedo-feminism
Comment: This book poses as a feminist text, but is really a guilty pleasure fest of stories of women cutting each other down in bathrooms and streetcorners. It portrays women in a very poor way, with the justification that "I concentrate on the bad aspects of women in competition cause that is what we need to change" Or maybe because it sells books to talk about women fighting over men, obsessing over their weights or badmouthing each other. There is no serious intellectual analysis here. Try Michael Messner for a balanced,intelligent and fun discussion of women in sport.
Rating: 5
Summary: Please don't pass this by
Comment: My husband was watching me put makeup on last month, shaking hs head. "What?", I said. He chuckled a bit and said, "You know, men don't really care if you have goop on your eyelashes and gloss on your lips. Women wear makeup for other women." And, although I deperately looked around for a soapbox to stand on to defend Sisterhood, I had to admit that he's right. When's the last time your significant other said, "You know, you could use some more blush on"? Hmm- pause for thought.
Leora Tanenbaum has so accurately hit the nail on the head with her new book "Catfight". In it, she relays how she finds herself in constant competition with other women, no matter how much she likes them. If she walks into a party, she notices that it's the women, not the men, that size her up and constantly watch her and the other women's moves all night. For all our efforts to catapult Sisterhood screaming into equality, Tanenbaum displays the fact that we are holding ourselves back with our competitive nature. Her story of feeling like she had to equal other women in the areas of breastfeeding, child rearing, and the always controversial working Mother saga rang all too true. Never have I devoured a non-fiction book so quickly (well, with the exception of "Reviving Ophelia", another female must-read). I have also emailed and called all my girlfriends to alert them to this marvelous book. A winner!
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Title: Woman's Inhumanity to Woman by Phyllis Chesler, Phyllis Chessler ISBN: 1560253517 Publisher: Nation Books Pub. Date: 09 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Woman to Woman 2000: Becoming Sabotage Savvy in the New Millennium by Judith Briles ISBN: 0882821717 Publisher: New Horizon Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation by Leora Tanenbaum ISBN: 0060957409 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection Among Girls by Lyn Mikel Brown ISBN: 0814799159 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons ISBN: 0156027348 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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