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What Should We Tell Our Daughters? - The Pleasures and Pressures of Growing Up Female (Paperback)
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What Should We Tell Our Daughters? - The Pleasures and Pressures of Growing Up Female (Paperback)
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Loot Price R295
Discovery Miles 2 950
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We have reached a tricky crossroads in modern women's lives and our
collective daughters are bearing the brunt of some intolerable
pressures. Although feminism has made great strides forward since
our mothers' and grandmothers' day, many of the key issues -
equality of pay, equality in the home, representation at senior
level in the private, public and political sectors - remain to be
tackled. Casual sexism in the media and in everyday life is still
rife and our daughters face a host of new difficulties as they are
bombarded by images of unrealistically skinny airbrushed
supermodels, celebrity role-models who depend on their looks and
partners for status, and by competitive social media. The likes of
Natasha Walter and Katie Roiphe deal with feminism from an adult
point of view, but our daughters need to be prepared for stresses
that are coming into play now as early as pre-school. This is a
manifesto for every mother who has ever had to comfort a daughter
who doesn't feel 'pretty', for every young woman who out-performs
her male peers professionally and wonders why she is still not
taken seriously, and for anyone interested in the world we are
making for the next generation.
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