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Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and sexuality. Peeling away notions of a rigid pre-modern Islamic gender system, Afsaneh Najmabadi provides a compelling demonstration of the centrality of gender and sexuality to the shaping of modern culture and politics in Iran and of how changes in ideas about gender and sexuality affected conceptions of beauty, love, homeland, marriage, education, and citizenship. She concludes with a provocative discussion of Iranian feminism and its role in that country's current culture wars. In addition to providing an important new perspective on Iranian history, Najmabadi skillfully demonstrates how using gender as an analytic category can provide insight into structures of hierarchy and power and thus into the organization of politics and social life.
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In the name of Iran.......2006-11-21
This is book is discussing how Iranian ladies took active role in shaping Iran's fabric of society. Women were able to have social mobility because Iranian women began to make progress in educational field. Having said that, the book also discussed Iran's Lion and Sun flag. This book also mentioned how King of Kings Reza/Riza PAHLAVI contributed to women progress in Iran. Dr. Afsaneh NAJMABADI did a good job.
Gender Bending Images of Beauty: a Mind-boggling Read .......2005-09-08
Living in Iran for five years, I became fascinated by one particular image of Iranian women. Not the woman in the black, cover-all chador, but the round-faced curly-haired sun lady, or Khorshid Khanoum, seen on everything from key-rings to hand-painted crockery. I wrote to Afsaneh Najmabadi, asking if she knew the origin of the image, and found to my delight that it would be the subject of a chapter in her new book, "Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards." It's a fascinating and revealing detective story of how images of beauty have changed over the centuries.
In the 19th century, the sun lady, rising from the back of a lion, was the national symbol of Iran, but gradually her face mysteriously disappeared. At that time, portraits of beautiful men and women were remarkably similar -- moon-faced, beardless, but sometimes with mustaches, and with heavy eyebrows joining in the middle. Further back, the most famous Persian love poetry was written to young, beautiful, beardless men, for which there was a word, amrad. Embarrassed scholars have never quite managed to agree on whether this important genre of poetry was homoerotic and sexual in nature or whether the beloved somehow represented an allegorical, neo-Platonic, divine love.
"Women with Mustaches" challenges our assumptions about beauty and whether it is inextricably and immutably linked with gender, male or female. The book includes beautifully chosen illustrations which make the argument all the more convincing.
Najmabadi, a Harvard University professor, uses Iranian history to explore ground-breaking ideas which may turn out to show a new way forward in gender studies.
The book follows various paths of research, including a study of the development of women's education in Iran, in particular the period at the turn of the 20th century known as the Constitutional Revolution. Stitched together from press reports, books, and the diaries of increasingly prominent women, this is interesting in itself. But Najmabadi uses it to support her argument that women's education became an integral part of the shaping of a modern nation. Women were among the first to recognise this. As one anonymous letter-writer put it: "I am a woman and according to you gentlemen I am mentally deficient, not quite human. Thanks to my father, I was not educated. But today it is clear to everyone that [even] any widowed woman has a claim to this National Assembly and today we demand our rights....We are fed up, we can no longer remain patient."
Najmabadi's distinct areas of research make it difficult to knit the arguments together, making the book sometimes appear disjointed. It is an academic book, not a light read. But it is original, authoritative and thought provoking, and not only because the image of women and the issue of compulsory hejab are still key political issues in today's Islamic Republic of Iran. This book will make you think long and hard about the depiction of beauty in Western culture too.
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- Classic Hemingway
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- ...and to top it off, there are BOXERS on the cover!
- Great weekend reading.
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CLASSIC SHORT STORIES FROM THE MASTER OF AMERICAN FICTION
First published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway's most important and compelling early writing. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war, the often uneasy relationship between men and women, sport and sportsmanship. In "Banal Story," Hemingway offers a lasting tribute to the famed matador Maera. "In Another Country" tells of an Italian major recovering from war wounds as he mourns the untimely death of his wife. "The Killers" is the hard-edged story about two Chicago gunmen and their potential victim. Nick Adams makes an appearance in "Ten Indians," in which he is presumably betrayed by his Indian girlfriend, Prudence. And "Hills Like White Elephants" is a young couple's subtle, heartwrenching discussion of abortion. Pared down, gritty, and subtly expressive, these stories show the young Hemingway emerging as America's finest short story writer.
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Classic Hemingway.......2007-04-04
A must for all Hemingway fans. What more can I say. If you are not a Hemingway fan, read this, it might make you one.
Early Hemingway stories.......2002-08-31
Hemingway's short stories have always been hit & miss with me. Some of them don't really do anything for me, none are among my very favorite short stories, but most of them are well-written and thought provoking. Such is the case with this set.
Hemingway offers us an assortment of masculine characters, mostly picked from his favorite types of male personas: soldiers, bullfighters, mobsters and prizefighters. Despite the title of the book, there are a smattering of female characters in some of the tales. They rank with the standard fare of impetuous women that Hemingway likes to write about.
The scope of the stories is quite broad, featuring painful topics such as abortion, breakup, heartbreak and being past ones prime. The latter theme is taken up in THE UNDEFEATED, THE KILLERS and FIFTY GRAND and later on re-appears in Hemingway's THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA. FIFTY GRAND, which details the demise of a washed-up boxer, is my favorite short story in this collection.
Stories such as IN ANOTHER COUNTRY, and NOW I LAY ME introduce motifs that are echoed in A FAREWELL TO ARMS, which was published just a few years after MWW.
Tho I've never been enamoured with the short story genre, Hemingway does rank as one of the best in the business - particularly in the American literary canon. Hence, followers of Hemingway as well as people who greatly enjoy short stories would likely appreciate this book.
...and to top it off, there are BOXERS on the cover!.......2001-03-28
These are some the best stories I have ever read. When I was in high school, my class was asked to read In Another Country for discussion. It was my first Hemingway short story, and an introduction to the novels we would be reading. I almost cried. His writing is just so gut-wrenchingly honest and raw. No overwrought explanations of emotion. You know how these characters are feeling simply because of how the speak and act. Hemingway is the master of context. The Killers is almost like a mystery story that never gets solved. Why doesn't he run out of town? What's going to happen to the big guy? I love this stuff and can't get enough of it.
Great weekend reading........1999-10-25
"Men Without Women" by Ernest Hemingway features a glimpse into the genius that is Hemingway. I found it to be a great read during a summer weekend. I especially enjoyed the Nick Adams stories and the story about the matador fighting one last glorious bullfight (one of Hemingway's favoright subjects). "Men Without Women" deals with subjects both everyday and serious such as love and abortion. This short read by Hemingway makes a great introduction for anyone wanting to begin reading Hemingway. I highly recomend it.
Still Papa.......1999-07-21
This book is admittingly not the best of Hemingway's, but it captures the pinnacle of his writing style and gift for description and leaves the reader feeling as if they were watching the tales on screen or actually experiencing them and makes them realize that this is a must-have for any collection of Hemingway works. Notice that I summarized this in one sentence........just read it.
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This book tells you how to love your separated man without losing your mind.
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Sanity Saver.......2007-09-26
I've had to recommend this to so many friends--hey, I live in Los Angeles! Its a life saving book that constantly empowers you to make choices and reminds you that you are making the decision to hang in there and not to play the victim role--especially to yourself. Smart, savvy, tough love--with a really loving delivery. A gem!
Practical Advice.......2007-06-01
This book gives practical and down to earth advice about dating a divorced man. I really enjoyed the book, it helped me to realize where to set my priorities.
A MUST HAVE!.......2006-07-20
This book is great. Fortunitly, I bought it the day things started to get hairy in my relationship, and it was a LIFESAVER. The humor is great, and you cant beat the honesty. It does seem confusing at first, but that is because you have to choose to move foward with your relationship or stick it out, and they help you to decide that without making the choice for you. You know its a good book when you highlight the key sections and review it later and almost all of the book is highlighted. It also touches on other items like attachement, needy, and a few others that play into meeting a un-divorced man. Kudos to this book!
amazing!.......2005-11-12
I read and re-read this book when I was unfortunately involved with a guy who was supposedly weeks away from finalizing his divorce. They had been separated for several years and she wasn't contesting the divorce, but he dragged the situation out for an entire year and put me through hell and then ended up getting back together with his wife. And until I read this book, I actually thought I was the only person who had endured something like that. While I was reading it the first time, I remember thinking, what did these people do? Look through my windows? It was such a relief to find out that I wasn't crazy and that every man who puts someone through this hell goes about it exactly the same way. I only wish I had read it a year sooner and saved myself a year of agony. Anybody who has gotten involved with someone who is separated or in the process of divorcing needs to read this book. Honestly, you'll think the authors have been looking in your windows, because you will see yourself on every page.
Proceed with caution, both with your new love and this book!.......2005-07-07
I gave the book four stars becaue it was helpful for me. I did however have to put the book down more than once because it freaked me out. I started reading the book to late into my relationship and things had progressed further than "the plan". I almost lossed the best things that has happened to me because I tried to catch up with the book. Just remember that every relationship is different, and not all can be covered by one book. Go with your gut girls! Just remeber you can't fix all of his problems with the ex, so don't even try.
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In Subjectivity without Subjects, well-known philosopher and feminist theorist Kelly Oliver looks at aspects of popular culture, film, science, and law to examine contemporary notions of paternity and maternity. Oliver studies the roles of paternal responsibility, virility, and race in such events as the Million Man March and the Promise Keeper's movement and suggests alternative ways to conceive of self-other relations and the subjective identity at stake in them. In addition she offers a detailed analysis of particular works by such well-known filmmakers as Polanski, Bergman, and Varda in developing a theory of identity that opens the subject to otherness and difference.
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Shortly after the 1989 publication of Women Without Men in her native Iran, Shahrnush Parsipur was arrested and jailed for her frank and defiant portrayal of women's sexuality. Now banned in Iran, this small masterpiece was eventually translated into several languages and introduces U.S. readers to the work of a brilliant Persian writer. With a tone that is stark, and bold, Women Without Men creates an evocative allegory of life for contemporary Iranian women. In the interwoven -destinies of five women, simple situations-such as walking down a road or leaving the house-become, in the tumult of post-WW II Iran, horrific and defiant as women escape the narrow confines of family and society-only to face daunting new challenges.
Now in political exile, Shahrnush Parsipur lives in the Bay Area. She is the author of several short story collections including Touba and the Meaning of Night.
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awful, and overly emotional.......2007-02-04
The significance of this story in regards to the female as the victim is overly drawn out. The plot sounds quit interesting, indeed, since it includes different women from different backgrounds all ending up in the same garden with different destinies.
However, once you read the book, if you actually get to the end, you realize that Parsipur presented nothing but over dramatized symbolic emotional rubbish. This is what the west wants to hear about women of Iran, and that's what Parsipur wrote. Middle Eastern Men are evil, and women are weak sexually oppressed objects who get abused. That is her conclusion, not much more. Its really too bad.
A little gem!!!.......2001-05-09
Though I stumbled upon the novel by accident, I must admit this book was well worth finding. The stories were simply written but were almost deceivingly fully loaded-- full of conflicting values, political ideology and agendas, and societal turmoil. The compilation of separate women's lives, so different from one another, but joined together by a common thread, hearkens back to a similar style of tale-telling found in many other cultures, such as Amy Tan's novel 'The Joy Luck Club' and the popular film 'How to Make an American Quilt'. Rather than choosing to write a politicized essay or thesis which reaches only a certain segment of the educated and politically literate population, Parsipur chooses to write fiction, laced with raw truths and posessing a clear agenda.
Such tales are typical of the kind that are passed down from generation to generation in order to educate the young about their society's morals or possible pitfalls that may entrap those who stray from the accepted norm. This is not dissimilar from urban legends that adults in American society pass amongst themselves or the fairy tales laced with truths that young children are told before bedtime.
Sometimes the most volitile information is passed down and understood by the most simple or innocuous means, and I think that is a conscious choice that Parsipur has made with this book. She chooses to uncover the double standard that both male and female society is guilty of upholding, the notion of virginity (and the understanding of what it is and what it means), and socially-sanctioned ideas of morality, mortality, violence, and inter-gender relationships through stories that allow the reader to look at how different women deal with the society that they live in.
Because Parsipur does not clearly lay out a list of evils that Iranian society proportedly commits, nor does she specifically glorify other elements of her society, her writing raises many more questions for the reader to ponder. By making the problems personal for each woman, some of the issues that a reader would initally consider black and white suddenly turn grey, which in turn, leads to a greater depth of meaning in her work.
In sum, I was very impressed by the book's simplicity, and appreciative for the brief glimpse through the window to Iranian society that it offered.
delightful read.......2000-06-07
I am an avid reader of literature of the Middle East and I found Dr. Talattof and Jocelyn Sharlet's translation of Parsipur's Women Without Men to be a delightful read. I have suggested it to all my friends in Princeton and beyond. It is one of those books that reads quickly, but stays on the mind a long time. Parsipur touches upon issues that are of interest to men and women, 'Easterners' and 'Westerners' alike.
delightful read.......2000-06-07
I am a casual reader of literature from the Middle East and I have found a particular delight in this translation by Dr. Talattof's of Sharnush Parsipur's book, Women Without Men. I have suggested it to all my friends in Princeton and beyond.
Intriguing.......1999-01-29
Women without Men is another entry in the growing category of Iranian cultural exports to the U.S., and one of the best. Like the Cannes-winning film The White Balloon, Women without Men presents a much different view of Iranian life than readers might expect based on reports from the evening news--a nuanced, subtle, self-reflexive society much concerned with the role of art in both everyday life and in the turbulent cultural politics of the nation. The story of a group of diverse Iranian women who forge a brief-lived utopian society, Women without Men also addresses, in startling, beautiful prose, the lives of women in any modern society. The fact that these stories can be transposed to, and understood by, Americans, is one of the pleasant surprises of the book; this isn't just a novel for scholars, but for anyone looking for a story that's both entertaining and profound. And, the translators, one Iranian and one American, have done a fabulous job in rendering the Persian into lucid English. I give this book five stars because, even though it's a small book, as one of the very few first rate translations of contemporary Iranian literature, it should be at the top of the reading list for anyone interested in international writing.
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This is the infamous response of Penn and Larose, two single guys, to The Rules (infamous in its own right). These commitment-phobic Nineties gentlemen, whose motto can best be expressed as "Trick them before they trick you," teach you how to get into a relationship ("Bite the buttons off her blouse the first time you make love") and back out again ("Bite the buttons off her blouse every time you make love"). Stop that Rules girl in her tracks -- no more lonely Saturday nights just because you called her after Wednesday!
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Late, but just on time.......2005-10-24
I guess this book came out a while ago, but I just stumbled upon it after a friend mentioned it. Anyway, it is darn near the funniest thing I've read on relationships and even helpful, in a weird sort of way. laugh out loud funny and true to the way men and women treat each other. if people were able to laugh at themselves like this book it might make the battle of the sexes less dangerous. highly recommended...for a laugh and for a first date
Very entertaining! I laughed my a@#% off!.......2002-12-24
To begin with I am a "rules girl" ( and it does work by the way :)regardless of all the remarks to the contrary- MEN DO NOT LIKE TO BE CHASED)
But I digress, this book is one of the funniest things I have read in years and it is written in good fun, after all- if a man ACTUALLY did these things he would have no love life to speak of or a very poor one.Some of the hints, however are very good- especially the "double messages" these I found helpful to use on either sex :)They do work on men, also.
I believe in getting as much info on the "enemies tactics: to better subdue them as possible- after all "all is fair in love and war" and everyone knows that one person is always in control of the relationship- I want to make sure it is me!:)
If that sounds calculating, so be it, it's better than being a doormat.
This book is hilarious!.......2002-11-29
If you're looking for a how-to-pick-up-chicks book, this isn't exactly it. In fact, this book doesn't officially exist. But it is rumored to present an attitude which one can only describe as being simultaneously warped and insightful -- in a way perhaps only a guy can appreciate.
It's not a long book, but I had a great time reading it. I was constantly looking forward to what new weird idea about women and the mating game they were going to come up with next. If you're in some rut about this subject from having been constantly exposed to all the mainstream media garbage out there, this is a book to break you out of it before it's too late (if it isn't already). But remember, the authors live in NYC, which has THE most favorable male-to-female ratio (for guys at least) of any city in the country... so you may not be able to get away with quite as flippant an attitude as they present here.
But, yea, I really liked The Code -- I mean, where else can you get a couple of hours of side-splitting entertainment for the dollar or two a used copy costs around here? And learn how not to be a total chump and/or keep women from converting you from the prince you are into the frog they want and like. I think it may be the single best book presenting the contemporary male view against marriage which doesn't get into law, public policy, and all that Really Important stuff. (Drop me a line if you know of another good one...) Now I know what Really Important Thing to look for in a girl before I consider marrying her. Get a copy for yourself and buy several more for your best non-female friends.
Decent.......2002-02-25
This book was a tolerable way to spend a few hours, and a moderately good send-up of the whole self-help industry. (Chapter 1 was particular effective in getting across the "Live the book, breathe the book" tone of "The Rules"). But it is worth pointing out (particularly for the "007" reviewer who seemed to think this book was tops) that it IS meant to be humorous! Take this book seriously, and you will not only completely ruin any love life you had, but be exposed to any familiar with it as a major fool! Good for those who may be tempted to take self-help books too seriously to get a sense of perspective!
Moderately amusing.......2001-05-28
Sophomoric send-up of "The Rules" in the style of National Lampoon. "The Rules" richly deserved a good send-up for its codification of double standards, manipulation, misrepresentation, and man-trapping. This isn't it.
The first few chapters are fairly amusing if you've got nothing better to do, but the humor becomes more contrived as you read on. Then it uses highbrow words while trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator, sometimes leaving the reader wondering WHAT their actual joke/point was. Nate and Lawrence are to be lauded for their efforts, but fell short of their noble goal.
"The Rules" was actually funnier - read it with an inquiring mind, then imagine the sort of unimaginative, artificial, incapable-of-independent-thought woman that believes every word it says.
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Here's a book for both men and women that is guaranteed to start some heated discussions! FOR WOMEN: Eavesdrop on the secret codes of masculinity. Discover what makes men tick. Penetrate the brain-fog of masculine thinking. Peel the cerebral onion of guy-hood. Find out how to get your way with your man. FOR GUYS: Here's a fishing trip down the river of your natural self. A vacation from "relationships." A holiday from all things feminine. A trout stream for your brain, naturally cleansed of "shopping," feminism and other female-borne viruses. A chance to drain the blackened oil from your cerebral engine, and fill it with five clean quarts of good feelings about yourself. Kick off your boots and wiggle your frozen toes on the fireplace of your masculine soul. You'll never be the same again.
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They're all angels really.......2007-04-17
-What Men Know That Women Don't- by Rich Zubaty was written after a number of years of intense study by the author investigating and contemplating the question of men, women, relationships - and life in the modern world. This book is a bittersweet rant against feminism; something filled with many penetrating observations and warnings to younger men. The author claims every man has now been conditioned to place women first, and to work for her well being rather than his own. "We don't have the faintest idea what it means to be a man anymore," he says. "Our male role models are reconstituted women. They are men women like, not the men God likes." Zubaty identifies this new male as the 'Manhole.' Similar to the 'Metrosexual,' the 'Manhole' has no sense of his own identity but only exists to complement females and to buy them things. This 'Manhole' is the product of female 'Memes' - female behaviour patterns by which a woman endeavours to make real the dream man she once imagined in her childhood. Realising this man becomes the woman's whole life and the enterprise overrides all other preoccupations. According to Zubaty, the power of these female memes to influence society is far greater than most men want to realise. Now that feminism has become the dominant cultural force in the western world for 'good,' the female meme has gained unfettered control of the Media, Corporations, Education and Government.' Overall, a picture emerges of men being torn from their spiritual and cultural ancestry by women. There are no male traditions left to teach boys how to be men, only feminised institutions that want 'Manholes.' Zubaty claims this conditioning process begins around the age of seven. At this time a boy stops needing its mother and begins to search for its father - in order to understand how to become a man. But something else happens too; the woman (a mother or any other female) also begins to treat the boy of this age (psychologically) as she would any man. She will start to place on the boy some of the same demands she makes of his father: that he too must help in the effort to ameliorate her existential anxieties, her neuroses and emotional hunger (i.e., to 'love' her). The boy is not equipped to do this and is confused. In a natural (old) society, this didn't matter much because the boy would be away from women much of the time, with his father and the other men, hunting and fishing, or otherwise being initiated into manhood. In modern civilisations though this is not possible. The father now works in an office or factory and the boy goes to school where he is taught - by more women. Without a man around to steer him right, the boy soon becomes lost in a female world - a place that nature never meant him to be. In such an unnatural environment, he soon learns to adopt the female behaviour patterns that surround him. He will learn to use his own neuroses and anxieties just like the women do, as both a petition and a begging bowl.
-What Men Know That Women Don't- is mostly an entertaining read and generally far from gloomy. The tone of the book throughout is something like sharing stories about women over a beer with your (male) friends. Zubaty's main theme is that the feminised man must unlearn his behaviour in order to lead a more spiritual and fruitful existence. I'm not entirely sure that I agree this is possible now for the majority of men, who are simply too 'nice' - and our traditions are dead anyway. The irony here is that Zubaty (in common with most other writers on this subject), by identifying women as the cause of the problem is then forced to conclude falsely that women must hold some key to a possible solution. In making this error, Zubaty can only return to the question of 'love' to look for his answer - an answer he never finds and never will find. But this should not deter the reader from enjoying this book. Much of the writing here illuminates the condition of modern men very well and is genuinely thought provoking; a few conclusions (regarding the origins of female memes) are based on a rather questionable exegesis, and in certain places I don't think Zubaty goes far enough. At times the author appears to believe (this is not made clear in the book) that a woman's behaviour is wilful, and therefore she may consciously agree to compromise with men in her relationships. This is impossible. I sense Zubaty may still have some particle of sympathy left for women - a terrible blunder by any man. We did not make women the creatures they are and there is no objective reason why we should consider it our place or our duty to save ('love') them, no matter how big the consensus of women and feminists is that demands it.
Five Stars. All in all, well worth looking up-wokinghamtrader.
Excuses.......2007-01-31
The legal system is suppose to be our servants. Most of the laws are written by a man. Man is the one who created child support and jail systems . This book seems to blame women. I believe the laws were created by the rich men were tired seeing their daughters being mistreated by men who would not live up to their obligations. As a result, jail is now a place of profit. I believe understanding the nature of the gender of the child would make things easier.If your man child calls mother first know it is because it is in his nature to seek a woman first. If a father would concentrate on the girl child you will find she is yours because it is in her nature to seek a man first. If one man in this world can overcome the legal system created by men, take care of his family despite the opposition of the woman which is normally out of not understanding a man ,then in time and with patience all of them can do it. Where are the masters of the house at? In my opinion this book will only serve as a dependent to men who want to justify their weaknesses. Without those laws your daughters would be watching their children suffer and die because some men not all men would rather feed his pride than his children. Something to think about.
Ten stars!.......2006-06-29
This book stayed beside my bed for more than one year...and is still there. From a man (Zubaty) to another one(us): confident, funny, realistic, paradoxal. In my opnion, will be hard to read a book like this one in the next 10 - 20 years. Great book!
A brilliant work of scholarship...and fun too!.......2006-01-11
I found Zubaties work to be filled with depth and insight. This is more then just an interesting read. It will challenge your current ways of thinking and even get you to laugh here and there if you've got a sense of humor. The complexity and richness of original ideas in Zubaties work is one of the most i've seen out of the hundreds of books that I have read. He dares to take on feminist orthodoxy and the increasing materialism of our day and makes an interesting connection that the two (feminism and materialism) are closely linked. Something I had a vague hunch about, but never quite put into words. While I don't fully agree with this book, the complexity of new ideas couldn't allow me to just dismiss it and I certainly couldn't do justice with it in this short review. It's something you have to read firsthand. I highly recommend this book as not only a great way to challenge your current state of thinking and perhaps gain some new insights, but maybe even a few laughs as well. : )
All that pent-up hatred!?.......2005-12-13
After reading all that unbridled vitriol by Dawn Marie Martin-Ali, I just HAD to order this book! I just received it, browsed through it, read a little, and am glad I bought it. $24.00 may be a bit high for a paperback, but it's over 500 pages long. How many of you believe that a woman that incensed by a book would have read anywhere near the 500 pages of that book? She says she laughed at how blind and egotistical the book is. After reading her post, is there anyone here who believes that this woman has ever laughed at anything in her life?
The author, Rich Zubaty, has a lot to say about men and women and how this country is going downhill due to its unchecked feminization. He's not whining, he's ranting... and telling it like it is. If you're interested in politically correct, this is not the book for you. If you're wondering why it seems like men are running things in this world but it increasingly feels like women are, at the expense of us men, then this book is for you.
I apologize for wasting your time a bit since I haven't yet read the book in full, but I just had to add my two-cents as a response to Dawn Marie's extended scream. What can you expect from a modern woman sporting a hyphenated last name?
By the way, it seems to me that everything that's wrong with this world has to be women's fault since they comprise 51% of the population. Wherever men are in charge, it's women over men who voted for or enabled them to be there and you can bet these men in charge are those who support (kiss up to) women over men in most cases. Why? Women have more votes! After all, how else could a majority group be classified as and garner special rights ostensibly reserved for minorities?
What a racket!
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In Men without Women Eliot Borenstein examines the literature of the early Soviet period to shed new light on the iconic Russian concept of comradeship. By analyzing a variety of Russian writers who span the ideological spectrum, Borenstein provides an illuminating reading of the construction of masculinity in Soviet culture. In each example he identifies the replacement of blood ties with ideology and the creation of a social order in which the family has been supplanted by the collective.
In such works as Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel, Envy by Yuri Olesha, and Chevengur by Andrei Platonov women are either absent or transformed into bodiless abstractions. Their absence, claims Borenstein, reflects the masculine values that are hallmarks of the post-revolutionary era: production rather than reproduction, participation in history rather than domestic ahistoricity, heavy industry, construction, and struggle. He identifies in this literature groups of “men without women” replacing the family, even while the metaphor of family is used as an organizing feature of their recurring revolutionary missions. With the passage of time, these characters’ relationships—just as those in the Soviet culture of the time—begin to resemble the family structure that was originally rejected and destroyed, with one important exception: the new “families” had no place for women. According to Borenstein, this masculinist myth found its most congenial audience during the early period of communism, but its hostility to women and family ties could not survive into the Stalinist era when women, home, and family were no longer seen as antithetical to socialism.
Drawing on the theory and writings of Levi-Strauss, Girard, Sedgwick, and others, Men Without Women will be of interest to students and scholars of Slavic literature and history as well as specialists in literary theory and gender studies.
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The sorority sisters of Alamo House at the University of Texas may be at comic odds with each other, but at least they have one thing in common: They all hate the fraternity rats across the street, the Sigma Upsilon Kappas—aka the SUKs. But amid the collegiate turmoil, Alamo House is also the scene of an extraordinary, endearing friendship among three women: Mary Jo, hilariously confused about life and love but determined to get both right; Fayrene, flushed with freedom after her escape from Baptist Waco; and Collie, party girl and self-proclaimed guide to the ways of the world. Together they embark on a roller coaster of escapades that changes them all—and galvanizes Alamo House into an all-out counterattack against the SUKs. The result is infectious, side-splitting fun sure to convince everyone that Mary Jo, Collie, and Fayrene are the best southwestern mixture since tequila, lime, and salt.
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Grad school in a whole new light.......2005-01-14
What can I say? I loved this book. After reading Bird's The Yokota Officer's Club, I was hooked on her writing style and voice. Her characters are well developed and so fabulously quirky and this novel most certainly delivers.
Mary Jo has been living with her boyfriend thinking that she had found her "settled down" life. Unfortunately that included cleaning up his messes which he perpetually left in their house. Fed up, stressed out and preparing to enter grad school, Mary Jo seeks out other living arrangements. As a last ditch effort on her way home from work, she stops at the Alamo House. A Co-op for female graduate students at the University of Texas, Alamo House seemed a little too creepy for her. Then she got home. Shortly there after she was moving into the Alamo House.
Filled with the spectrum of people only found on college campuses, Mary Jo comes to be a part of this easily missed community. She meets Collie who teaches her the Axiom and Fayrene, a girl with a photographic memory timid about life in the big city after leaving her very Baptist life in a small Texas town who come to be her inseperable cohorts in crime. From taking down the SUKs from within to their daily swimming ritual, these girls know how to play off of each other's traits and become stronger on their own.
I also enjoyed the story line that revolved around her rock star coworker and their time at the LBJ library. Tommy reinvented his band four times just in this one book! His take on Birdiana is hilarious and well worth waiting to read about it.
This had a good ending and there was room for more to be told. As with every good book I wish there was more to read but the ending was satisfying. I highly encourage you to read the Reader's Guide in the back. When I read Yokota it was actually an interview with Bird and her sisters. This time it is an essay by Bird reliving her time at the grad school co-op she lived in and it is totally entertaining. I cannot wait to read more books from this author.
a very engaging read.......2004-09-14
This is a story about being at a crossroads in life, wondering which way to turn or staying in the rut and not bothering at all. It begins with a young woman in a bad relationship who doesn't really want to leave, thereby cutting off the possibility of getting married, but knows she should try something......and ends up at a sad excuse for housing called the Alamo House, which at first glance appears to be full of a bunch of weirdos and losers or as the frat house residents across the street call them - dykes (the ultimate macho jerk insult). These guys harass them unmercifully. As we met the inhabitants of this book and take a closer look, we smile in recognition. By the end of the story we are rooting for Alamo House and plotting the destruction of the frat house right along side the girls. The reader forgets how the characters were first described and see them in a much kinder light. This plot is just the backdrop to the real story of the friendship formed between three girls, our narrator, an overweight girl away for the first time from her bible thumping family and a drama major who is a beautiful whirlwind that dresses up as doomed women (Marilyn Monroe, Sylvia Papth, etc.). Their story is the most compelling and emotionally touching. Oh yeah, the concept of feminism from all perspectives is also present in this story. The author delivers all of these themes in one well written novel. Kudos to Sarah Bird. I highly recommend this book and look forward to reading other books by this author.
Bird's got it going ON!!!.......2004-04-25
Bored and browsing the Sam's book aisle, I reluctantly picked up the trade paperback copies of Sarah Bird's titles, "Alamo House" and "The Mommy Club", gave in and bought them, but I didn't open them. Just shelved them for that "mood hits me" time. I guess I didn't think Sarah Bird's writing was up the level I wanted at the time.
Well, after a rather serious and great non-fiction read, I went to the shelves and pulled out "Alamo House" and pulled an all-nighter reading this tome. It was like Animal House (the SUKs, appropriate name, eh?) meets the weirdo scholarly dames. And it was/is fun and funny and poignant.
I am so glad I met these women and entered into their lives and lived a bit of fictional/autobiographical Bird history of University of Texas Austin, circa the '80's. I will now grab hold of "The Mommy Club" and find the other Bird reads to indulge myself in her clever storytelling.
In addition, I will recommend this read to my fellow book clubbers and to my sister Red Hatters, especially those that loved "Ya-ya Sisterhood".
I especially enjoyed reading Sarah Bird's "Conversation with the Author" at the book's end.
Do yourself a favor and remember the Alamo in this version! No need to go to the movies yet.
But wouldn't this book make a fun movie, though?
Remember the Alamo..........2003-11-30
I happened to read an article about Sarah Bird in the Austin American Statesman and it mentioned the re-release of three of her books. After reading brief descriptions of them, I ran out and bought them. Alamo House is a scream. It's an easy and quick read making you feel as if you, too, live right there in Alamo House with Mary Jo, Fayrene and Collie. I can't wait to pass my copy on to my friends who attended the University of Texas.
I wish there were more than 5 Stars.......2003-10-15
March 14, 2000
I can't believe this book is out of print. it is so well written, so funny, absolutely one of the best books i've ever read. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title
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Manner Ohne Frauen/Men Without Women
Ernest Hemingway
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Binding: Paperback
Hemingway, Ernest
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