Warm night, can't sleep, another book finished! I was instantly engaged by the narrator and was thoroughly enjoying part one, even though not a great deal was happening. Then we moved on to Part Two, the manuscript he wrote about his relationship with the editor and his wife - and it nearly los...
Without even noticing, thirty-four-year-old Esther Fairchild has become a prisoner of routine. Living with her adored brother, Christian, she divides her time between illustrating children's books, nightly shifts as a waitress, weekly visits to her father and fortnightly meetings with her married...
Mum said she’d be glad to have them out from under her feet – which made Daniel think of a lump of squashed chewing gum – and offered them a lift into town after lunch. They were to make their own way back by the evening bus, which took a meandering two-hour route along every possible road, or by...
To say that thisFor examples of this process, see Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 694–95; Laura Sanchez and Elizabeth Thomson, ‘‘Becoming Mothers and Fathers,’’ 766; and Pepper Schwartz, Love Between Equals.John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women, 127–28.Bourdieu, Masculine Domination, 11–1...