The H-Spot

The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness

Author: Jill Filipovic
ISBN: 9781568585475

What do women want? The same thing men were promised in the Declaration of Independence: happiness, or at least the freedom to pursue it. For women, though, pursuing happiness is a complicated endeavor, and if you head out into America and talk to women one-on-one, as Jill Filipovic has done, you'll see that happiness is indelibly shaped by the constraints of gender, the expectations of feminine sacrifice, and the myriad ways that womanhood itself differs along lines of race, class, location, and identity. In The H-Spot, Filipovic argues that the main obstacle standing in-between women and happiness is a rigged system. In this world of unfinished feminism, men have long been able to "have it all" because of free female labor, while the bar of achievement for women has only gotten higher. Never before have women at every economic level had to work so much (whether it's to be an accomplished white-collar employee or just make ends meet). Never before have the standards of feminine perf

Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publish Date: 2017-05-02

Subjects: Social Science / Women's Studies, Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Women's Studies)