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Bezig met laden... Vrouwen. Een korte geschiedenisdoor Kate Walbert
Biggest Disappointments (258) Simon & Schuster (51) Bezig met laden...
Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This book, supposed to be a treatise in support of women, was a huge disappointment. Many professional reviews were excellent, but I agree with so many of the readers' comments who got very little out of the many generations of a family whose matriarch starved herself to death in honor of women and possibly gaining equality for them in England. Most members of the family were quite uninteresting and also cold as people. And after plodding through many details that were provded, but not adequately explained, this book just stopped. Walbert is not an author I will read again. I also did not care for the fact that so many men were at most 2-dimensional and their motives were not usually positive, regardless of what they did. ( ) A fictional "history" of women in one family, from the early British suffragist to the modern American college student. Although the issues the women grapple with through the generations ring true, because the "history" is short there is not space for depth or resolution. A fast read with interesting character sketches. A complicated tapestry tracking generations of women, each trying to discover themselves and what each believes worth fighting for. I really enjoy the story, but having listened to the audiobook there were moments when the changing narrators were hard to follow. I'd recommend reading rather than listening. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Inspired by a suffragist ancestor who starved herself to promote the integration of Cambridge University, Evie refuses to marry and Dorothy defies a ban on photographing the bodies of her dead Iraq War soldier sons, a choice that embarrasses Dorothy's daughters. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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