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- The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower
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In this provocative new book, psychologist and social commentator Dr. Jean Twenge documents the self-focus of what she calls "Generation Me" - people born in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Dr. Twenge explores why her generation is tolerant, confident, open-minded, and ambitious but also cynical, depressed, lonely, and anxious. Dr. Twenge reveals how profoundly different today's young adults are - and makes controversial predictions about what the future holds for them and society as a whole.
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I mostly agree
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A Strange Stirring
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- De: Stephanie Coontz
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Based on exhaustive research and interviews, and challenging both conservative and liberal myths about Friedan, A Strange Stirring brilliantly illuminates how a generation of women came to realize that their dissatisfaction with domestic life didn’t reflect their personal weakness but rather a social and political injustice.
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Good histroy and well written
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Young China
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A close-up look at the Chinese generation born after 1990, exploring through personal encounters how young Chinese feel about everything from money and sex to their government, the West, and China’s shifting role in the world - not to mention their love affair with food, karaoke, and travel. Set primarily in the Eastern 2nd tier city of Suzhou and the budding Western metropolis of Chengdu, the book charts the touchstone issues this young generation faces.
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Erudite, enthralling, and engaging!
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Committed
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At the end of her best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. But providence intervened one day in the form of the United States government....
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Perfect timing
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Coming Apart
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In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity.
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Brilliant & Flawed
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Thrive
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In the first book to identify demographically proven happiness hotspots worldwide, researcher and explorer Dan Buettner documents the happiest people on earth and reveals how we can create our own happy zones. Detailing extraordinary new discoveries and meticulous research on four continents, Buettner observes happiness in unlikely places and gleans surprising insight into what generates contentment and what it means to thrive.
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Around the world with circular reasoning
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Forget "Having It All"
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In Forget "Having It All", Westervelt traces the roots of our modern expectations of mothers and motherhood back to extremist ideas held by the first Puritans who attempted to colonize America and examines how those ideals shifted - or didn't - through every generation since.
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A Thorough and Well-Researched Book on The "Mom Predicament"
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When Everything Changed
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An enthralling blend of oral history and Gail Collins' keen research, this definitive look at 50 years of feminist progress shimmers with the amusing, down-to-earth liberal tone that is this New York Times columnist's trademark.
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The book I have been waiting for!
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Men on Strike
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- De: Helen Smith PhD
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American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are responding. They're dropping out of college, leaving the workforce, and avoiding marriage and fatherhood at alarming rates. The trend is so pronounced that a number of books have been written about this man-child phenomenon, concluding that men have taken a vacation from responsibility. But why should men participate in a system that seems to be increasingly stacked against them?
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Finally, someone said it!
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Marriage, a History
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In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes listeners from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers to demonstrate how recent the idea of marrying for love is - and how absurd it would have seemed to most of our ancestors. It was when marriage moved into the emotional sphere in the 19th century, she argues, that it suffered as an institution just as it began to thrive as a personal relationship.
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Marriage from a secular feminist's perspective
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The Nordic Theory of Everything
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Moving to America in 2008, Finnish journalist Anu Partanen quickly went from confident, successful professional to wary, self-doubting mess. She found that navigating the basics of everyday life - from buying a cell phone and filing taxes to education and childcare - was much more complicated and stressful than anything she encountered in her homeland. At first she attributed her crippling anxiety to the difficulty of adapting to a freewheeling new culture. But as she got to know Americans better, she discovered they shared her deep apprehension.
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A non-radical perspective on two societies
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Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Leftover in China
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- Morgan
- 08-05-20
Recommended this boom by a professor
I listen to it while driving, it was easy to absorb and very informative. 10/10 would recommend if you're interested in Chinese politics (it's my major) or just curious about the lives of women in a different part of the world.
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- 04-03-18
Insights into the social dynamics of modern China
If you could sum up Leftover in China in three words, what would they be?
Really good insights into modern power, gender, class and relationship dynamics in China.
What did you like best about this story?
I'm a Chinese girl but I grew up abroad. I'm now working and living in Shanghai. I thought I had a fairly good grasp on the key themes of the book before I started listening but there is so much more that I did not know - particularly about the mistresses. Very eye opening content.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Janet Song?
Umm ... anyone who actually knew how to speak Mandarin. If you are a mandarin speaker, it will be painful for you to listen to her butcher the language. And I'm not being particular with the tones or picky about her accent. It is clear - she is completely unable to speak Mandarin. Surely they could have found someone who could read both languages.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
No extreme reaction but I feel it should be pointed out that not all smart beautiful women are doomed to be mistresses or leftover and not all silly clueless ladies can easily land themselves a husband. The book, of course, wants to focus on these themes and needs to generalize but I feel like I need to point out that there are a LOT of people in China who don't want silly wives, marry because they love someone, and go about their lives without participating in a lot of this business.
Any additional comments?
The book is being translated into mandarin and it will be released in China.
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- GAM
- 02-24-18
A great book for both Women and Men
What made the experience of listening to Leftover in China the most enjoyable?
Listing to the story's about what the young woman and men of China are going though was very insightful...I kept on wanting to hear more!
What was one of the most memorable moments of Leftover in China?
My girl friend is Chinese and I am 2nd generation American Italian (in that order) she has been in the US for 27 years and we are both older. Her sibling, lives in China and has one child, a daughter, who exactly fits the description of the woman described in this book. She speaks passable English, very intelligent, ambitious, beautiful, well connected family, 28 years old and no boy friend. I think of myself as very knowledgeable but I was so wrong thinking that it would be like shooting fish in a barrel for her to find a mate in China until I heard Roseann Lake's words and what she had to say about her situation!
Which scene was your favorite?
Too many to pick one....it was like eves dropping on woman talking about relationships and how to deal with men (alway fun to hear)....it's no secret that when it comes to woman men for the most part are just plan stupid!!
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Yes it made me laugh more then once!! When I think of the miscalculations of the leaders in China and other places who over reacted to the birth rate, well intentioned men who really hurt a lot of men and women. Physically and mentally, that is quite sad, as a father of a married daughter of this age my heart goes out to these families!
Any additional comments?
This book needs to be translated into Mandarin!
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- David Soto
- 03-15-18
Informative and provacative
There are social changes underway in many parts of the world and women will play a key role in the out come.
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- 03-11-18
Excellent Choice!
The women and issues the author wrote about from China are very interesting and how current employment and family life have been impacted by the one-child policy are very well explained. I appreciate that Roseann Lake even explained some of the similarities and differences with Japan, South Korea, and other locations for the women in higher education and the workforce. This book really is not just for women to read, since men could learn some things about how central planning can really impact very basic life choices. The book was an excellent choice for a Saturday listen! Do not miss this one.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-23-18
Loved it, but not the narrator
A great, insightful, instructive and incisive book. What a shame that the narrator's voice feels almost like a robot is reading to us... Please consider re-recording it with the lively and sharp voice of the author, Roseann Lake!
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