Are Women Human?
If you walk by the New Book Shelf, it's hard not to notice some of the book titles. The following three in particular are real neck craners.
In Are Women Human?, the author Catherine A MacKinnon asks if women were human would they be sold into sexual slavery worldwide, veiled, silenced, and imprisoned in homes; bred, and worked as menials for little or no pay; stoned for sex outside marriage or burned to death within it; mutilated genitally, impoverished economically, and mired in illiteracy--all as a matter of course and without effective recourse?
The Frailty Myth strikes a more hopeful and upbeat note, suggesting that the difference between men and women in physical strength is a matter of learning and training and that when men and women are matched in terms of size and level of training, the strength gap closes. Author Colette Dowling who in 1981 confronted women's fear of independence in The Cinderella Complex, questions that women must accept their physical inferiority and offers that true equality isn't possible until women learn how to stand up for themselves--physically.
And finally for some practical advice for any woman who wants to move ahead career-wise is Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office 101. by Executive Coach Lois P. Frankel, Phd. According to Frankel, women hold themselves back in the corporate world by such self-defeating behaviors as working too hard, decorating their offices like their living room, feeding others, asking permission, and smiling inappropriately.
