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Another awesome post from Blue Milk, reviewing a book that I haven't read but that sounds depressingly spot-on.
She mentions that the book has "little to say about how our community and economy could be organised differently to focus less on a traditional male life-course, and much to say about how women can best ensure their security in this patriarchal landscape by moulding themselves to its contours. Work with it, not against in, in other words." I don't know. I see the point, but I don't see how any of us can afford to be anything but pragmatic about careers and contingency plans, considering how slowly that landscape is changing.
She mentions that the book has "little to say about how our community and economy could be organised differently to focus less on a traditional male life-course, and much to say about how women can best ensure their security in this patriarchal landscape by moulding themselves to its contours. Work with it, not against in, in other words." I don't know. I see the point, but I don't see how any of us can afford to be anything but pragmatic about careers and contingency plans, considering how slowly that landscape is changing.