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Either this book got less radical, or I got more radical as I read it. This is a collaboration of chapters from various different authors--all around the theme of the life cycle.

The focus that I saw in this book was that there are many factors that influence one's life. Culture, class, siblings, divorce, sexual orientation, substance abuse, violence are a few.

The reason I say this book is radical is that, at the beginning of the book, it seemed ultra-feminist. I consider myself pretty liberal and open minded, but being constantly hit over the head with "Women have it so bad compared to men" a million times in one paragraph (maybe an exageration), I had trouble reading it. Thankfully, the book did not stay that way the entire time, and there was some very interesting things to learn.

A bigger problem I felt was how outdated the research in the book was (ready for a new edition!).

And, for all that it said about multiculturalism--there was NO mention of Native Americans in ANY chapter. Talk about marginalizing a group. In the chapter that was devoted to culture and the life cycle, the authors even broke out an "Irish" and "Jewish" group...but NOTHING on Native Amricans...this is the more unforgivable thing...
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csweder | 1 anden anmeldelse | Jul 8, 2014 |
Either this book got less radical, or I got more radical as I read it. This is a collaboration of chapters from various different authors--all around the theme of the life cycle.

The focus that I saw in this book was that there are many factors that influence one's life. Culture, class, siblings, divorce, sexual orientation, substance abuse, violence are a few.

The reason I say this book is radical is that, at the beginning of the book, it seemed ultra-feminist. I consider myself pretty liberal and open minded, but being constantly hit over the head with "Women have it so bad compared to men" a million times in one paragraph (maybe an exageration), I had trouble reading it. Thankfully, the book did not stay that way the entire time, and there was some very interesting things to learn.

A bigger problem I felt was how outdated the research in the book was (ready for a new edition!).

And, for all that it said about multiculturalism--there was NO mention of Native Americans in ANY chapter. Talk about marginalizing a group. In the chapter that was devoted to culture and the life cycle, the authors even broke out an "Irish" and "Jewish" group...but NOTHING on Native Amricans...this is the more unforgivable thing...
… (mere)
 
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csweder | 1 anden anmeldelse | Jul 8, 2014 |

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