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Sto caricando le informazioni... Wifework: What Marriage Really Means for Womendi Susan Maushart
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Nothing has changed; I've no desire to be a wife but am still quite keen to acquire one. Interesting points to note for me is that men get far more out of marriage than women in terms of health, stability, leisure time, companionship and happiness. They are less prone to mental illness and live longer in married relationships. No wonder women initiate most divorces. I feel like I've known this all my life, it's hardly ground breaking information and yet it's so persistent. Extract - "The practice of husbands 'helping' around the house is no more a solution either. Any man who insists that this is good enough should be immediately downgraded to 'helping' with his wife's sex life as well." nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
A revealing and far- reaching investigation that wittily lifts the lid on the supposed equality of the modern family. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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this book makes some important and interesting points. Essentially, it is a
treatise on why marriage is failing, namely that women are no longer
willing to stay in such an unequal partnership that they needed to survive
in the past. This is borne out by statistics - more divorces are initiated
by women than men, and Maushart's argument is this is because most men are
quite comfortable in their marriages while their wives are probably
burdened with all the work, both physical and emotional. This is not a book
against marriage however - Maushart passionately argues for the survival of
marriages, especially for the sake of children. The fact that Maushart left
her second marriage and took her three children with her gives her
interpretation of the research some integrity - she is not afraid to look
at her own situation and criticise it.
This is a well researched book - Maushart quotes from an incredibly large
range of studies. She also makes a point of letting the reader know when
points she is making are her own conclusions based on life experience or
anecdotal evidence. And this time she is willing to offer solutions to the
problems she posits - namely that women must stop deluding themselves that
marriage is going to be a bed of roses and communicate their frustrations
openly rather than waiting to one day explode.
For all it's plusses, I still found this book a little too negative - there
is very little mention given to positives of being a wife (yes, there are
some!) And while it is hard to be positive about the actions of most men
vis-a-vis being equal in marriages - the evidence stacks up against them
mightily - there is no way I would give this to a man to read, as i am sure
they would just turn their back on such negative images. Did I find a lot
of what Maushart had to say true? You bet - no matter how wonderful our
partners are, most wives in modern society seethe, often permanently, on
what a dud deal marriage can be. But I also found that her analysis at
times read stridently biased, as though she was not willing to look beyond
her personal circumstance (two failed marriage to men who sound perfectly
dreadful). However, I would recommend this book to all wives, even if only
to make them think about how their marriage works, or doesn't, for them. ( )