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Feminist follies: facing facts at fifty. (In Their Own Words).
I certainly wouldn't want your life." This unsolicited pronouncement by one author's stay-at-home mother is the theme of the following mid-life reflection on feminism. After decades of living and defending the feminist ideals of the 1970s, over and against the traditional gender model of our upbringing, we are forced to concede that our mothers may, indeed, have had better lives.
Underlying the following critique is the recognition that life proceeds on two levels, the realm of ideals on the one hand, and realities on the other. Some people invest time and effort in the pursuit of imagined perfection, for example, egoless love, world peace, and--significant ...
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