Never stop reading. (Content originally posted at Blogger.)
I am lucky in the way that the women in Kate Walbert’s A Short History of Women are not. Because I was born after more than a century of women’s suffrage and liberation movements, I had so many more paths open to me than the women in this book. I was never prevented from voting. I was never expected to use my college years to find a husband. I was never told I was unnatural because I don’t have children. It’s no surprise, then, that A Short History of Women is a short history of female anger and dissatisfaction...
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