Rabbit {Paint me like one of your 19th century gothic heroines!} > Recent Status Updates

Re-read :)

"As literary scholars Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gruber observe the postwar era, 'Just as more and more women were getting paid for using their brains, more and more men represented them in novels, plays, and poems as nothing but bodies.' "

"Adrienne Rich has described it, 'the erasure of women's political and historical past which makes each new generation of feminists appear as an abnormal excrescence on the face of time.' "

DNF. This is good, it just can't keep my interest. Might try again.

"Wattenberg arrived at his doomsday scenarios by projecting a declining birthrate two centuries into the future. In other words, he was speculating on the number of children of women who weren't even born."

"[...] A research team who conducted a world-wide review and analysis of the research literature concluded that only 10 of those studies used reliable methods, and of those 10, only one found any relation between abortion and later pregnancy problems- and that study looked at a sample of Greek women who had undergone dangerous, illegal abortions."

"Over-all, the percentage of women unable to have babies had actually fallen- from 11.2% in 1965 to 8.5% in 1982."

DNF. This book is so misogynistic and racist that I cannot. I know it was written in the 80's but there is absolutely no self-awareness or irony. This book perpetuates the views of that time. Also can't stand the MC. Life is too short for this.

DNF. This is okay but I just can't focus on it. I might return to this.

This is much better

Ugh I hate this portrayal of animal cruelty protesters. Also the MC is a man-child prone to temper tantrums.