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3. Slaughter's viewpoint is pretty slanted to women of her own class.

Reply to maddezmom (Original post)

Sat Jun 23, 2012, 01:18 PM

Jun 2012

I'm sure many women live with the experience that work and children are really hard to balance, and have lived this reality for generations.

The educated "professional" woman who is "trying to have it all" is juggling choices that many women have not had for generations. That wasn't feminism that lied to women of our generation, it was yuppiedom and the incipient speed-up of the 1970's and 80's.

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Anne-Marie Slaughter and the fiction of 'have-it-all' feminism [View all] maddezmom Jun 2012 OP

Interesting. But who is "feminism?" Who lied to who? yardwork Jun 2012 #1

things will change when women stop plastering their faces with colored mud nt msongs Jun 2012 #2

Slaughter's viewpoint is pretty slanted to women of her own class. Starry Messenger Jun 2012 #3

Yes, reality hits. If juggling two "careers" as a single parent, with two teenagers Zorra Jun 2012 #5

Same here with my mom. Starry Messenger Jun 2012 #6

I think the real message was, and still is, Zorra Jun 2012 #7

Yes, very much so. TBF Jun 2012 #8

Feminism is not at fault; employment that views workers as exploitable resources is REP Jun 2012 #4