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Title: Unfinished Business: A Democrat and a Republican Take on the 10 Most Important Issues Women Face by Julianne, Dr. Malveaux, Deborah L. Perry, Soledad O'Brien ISBN: 0-399-52808-3 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (11 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Very Superficial
Comment: This book had no substance behind. Information was thrown out as fact with no supporting evidence (on both sides), e.g., the wage comparisons -- where did this data come from?, what groups were studied?, etc.
I am not sure how Julianne Malveaux got her PhD. Her writing is awful. She has no concept of personal responsibility. I am pro-choice but her argument for it is awful!!!!! Nothing about when a baby can be considered an actual person, etc.. I really am not sure how she got her Ph.D. -- by her accounts it may be through affirmative action but this is the fault with affirmative action -- it makes one question a persons true quilifications. She is a bad example of a liberal. I would consider myself a liberal but Deborah Perry was much more articulate in stating her point of view.
Rating: 3
Summary: Overblown issue with familiar results....
Comment: Despite the marathon title here's another introspective look at what's happening on the distaff of life from the views of two accomplished authoritive types. As such, man's better half, helpmate, and significant other have made great strides and truly have come a long way to dispel notions of inferiority, either in the workplace or otherwise. Where women are now, and where they go from here are given a platform for a head-to-head, if not spirited debate from two women representing our politifal parties. Unfinished Busines: A Democrat and a Republican Take On The 10 Most Important Issues Women Face reads like a mundane and plodding entity full of anecdotal and personal analogies indicative of the women that wrote the book. Although the book is well-written, it doesn't really lend anything to make it really jump out and grab your attention. Those that are fans and followers of the authors probably will be able to give it creedence lofty of their interpretation of a good read. I rated this book three stars out of five, which makes it a midpoint perceptive analogy which does have some good points.
It has stirring and provocative exchanges in spots where opinionated views tend to give it color, tone, and a certain tenor when each author plaintively give their heartfelt views on the reported issues. Dr. Julienne Malveaux (The Democrat) is a noted Economist whom have discussed many of the points here as a syndicated columnist for several national newspapers. In the other corner is the Honorable Deborah L. Perry (The Republican), a former Bush cabinet advisor, and a current political commentator on MSNBC and Fox News. Unfinished Business succinctly examines the ten issues women care about most (at least to the liking of these two women) from two very different perspectives. After reading the book I came to realize and marvel at how well-informed and motivated these combatants were in espousing their views on topics ranging from the failings of our education system, the inequities that women face in the workplace, reproductive rights, taxes, childcare, et al. I expected more for a unique style that would possibly separate it from other books written in the same idiom. My interpretative view would more than likely agree with readers who may look at it as the 'same old same old' and relegate it average in appeal - or worse. Always in such competitive analysis when looking for clear-cut winners in debatable issues, I couldn't say with any overwhelming conviction that one of these author were better than the other.
Moreover, and to their individual credit, Malveaux and Perry found enough common ground in the passion they felt for those issues and the role that women must play in initiating and effecting meaningful change. Written in classic call and response style, I surmise that this would be the type of book to pique disenting views from those in either direction - liberal or conservative to to incite lively discussion where there's a men vs. women inequitive discourse. Another good point is the resource section ending every chapter for further reflective views. The collaborative effort of both these women was a good idea, but it lacked the oomph to elicit more oohs and aahs!
Rating: 2
Summary: A dissapointment
Comment: I'm sorry to say that this book did not live up to it's potential at all. I felt, when reading it, like I was watching Crossfire, or Hannity & Colmes, which is to say, watching two pundits volley rhetoric back and forth. I can't say that I learned anything new, although, to be fair, I do not think I am really the intended audience for this book.
My biggest dissapointment with the book is that the '10 biggest issues [American!] women face' aren't specifically women's issues. Sure, education is an issue that American women are concerned with, as are the economy, foreign affairs, et al, but these are not issues that are unique only to women, and they are certainly not frontiers that Feminism has not yet conquered. I could have gotten over this if the authors had taken the time to focus on aspects of these issues that apply directly toward women's concerns, and I can tell that this must have come up in the editing of the book from time to time, because often there are sentences thrown in here and there to try and justify why this particular issue (i.e. "the economy") is relevent specifically to women. Still, in "Unfinished Business" the ten issues are simply debated as important issues in American politics, and I felt like I had been hoodwinked into reading two talking heads repeating their oft-stated opinions, instead of really rolling up their sleeves and attacking issues that are uniquely of interest to American women.
The book was also sloppily edited. I wasn't going through the book with a red pen or anything, but several times I came across poorly worded sentences, typos or extra words, and I found it to be very jarring. The entire book has a rushed feel to it.
However, there were a few things about the book that I did like. I liked some of Dr. Malveaux's points, and in some sections (particularly the section on race relations) I saw a glimmer of honesty and from-the-hip straight talk that I wished we she would have employed more often in this book. I liked how at the end of most chapters, the two authors would get together and come up with points in which they agreed, and both would provide a list of ways to take action at the end of each essay, which I thought was helpful and a nice addition to the book. I also appreciated the chance to read a different point of view from mine (Deborah Perry's), and to get a general idea of how the mainstream American right wing views women's issues. Had the book been more focused on issues more unique to American women, and contained a bit more straight talk and a lot less punditry, I might have walked away from this book with a better understanding of these ideas.
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Title: The Race Trap: Smart Strategies for Effective Racial Communication in Business and in Life by Robert L. Johnson, Steven Simring, Gene Busnar ISBN: 0066620015 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 14 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Implementing Diversity: Best Practices for Making Diversity Work in Your Organization by Marilyn Loden ISBN: 078630460X Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race by Leonard Steinhorn, Barbara Diggs-Brown ISBN: 0452278732 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say by Douglas Rushkoff ISBN: 157322829X Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 10 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Body Project : An Intimate History of American Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg ISBN: 0679735291 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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