Lifting a Ton of Feathers is not only a survival guide, it is also a destroyer of academic myths about women's career chances in the university, and a revelation of the catch-22 positions in which women find themselves. Caplan demonstrates that while many women believe that when they fail it is their fault, their fate is more likely to be sealed by their encounter with the male environment, and by the manner in which they are tossed about by it. She aims to help women avoid self-blame and understand the real sources of their problems. Readers will find the information about the mine-field of academia for women infuriating, but the means of telling it highly entertaining. Women account for more than half of all undergraduate students in the US and Canada, yet they make up only 10 per cent of faculty members at the level of full professor. What happens to women between freshman level, the tenure track, and the ensuing following professional years that keeps them out of the highest levels of academia? Paula Caplan is herself a veteran of the academic career struggle, and she sets out to explore this question with not only her own observations but also those of many women whom she has interviewed, and with a strong backing of established research. With these tools she provides a clear-eyed assessment of what women who have embarked on an academic career, and those who are considering it, may expect. Forewarned is forearmed, and Caplan presents a list of the forms that the maleness of the environment take: two of these are the conflict between professional and family responsibilities, and sexual harassment. In addition, her book offers advice on practical techniques of how to prepare a curriculum vitae, how to handle job interviews, and how to apply for promotions and tenure. A final chapter is a unique checklist which serves two purposes: to provide guidance in a search for a woman-positive institution and to give suggestions for ways individual women, and women in groups, can work to improve the situation at their own institutions.
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坦白说,一开始我抱着一种审慎的态度翻开这本书,毕竟现在市面上充斥着太多故作高深却内容空洞的作品。然而,这本书却以一种近乎粗粝的真实感迅速抓住了我的注意力。它的叙事风格非常大胆,大量运用了意识流的手法,时而将你抛入一个混乱的梦境,时而又把你猛地拽回冰冷的现实。这种破碎感恰恰反映了主角在面对生活巨大冲击时的精神状态。文笔上,作者并不刻意追求华丽的辞藻,反而偏爱那些简洁、有力的短句,如同精准的手术刀,直击问题的核心。情节的推进并非传统的线性发展,而是充满了跳跃性和回溯性,需要读者付出极大的注意力去拼凑完整的图景。我感觉自己像一个考古学家,小心翼翼地剥开层层泥土,试图还原出早已湮没的文明面貌。这种需要“主动参与”的阅读体验,对于习惯了被动喂养故事的读者来说,或许是个挑战,但一旦进入状态,那种征服感是无与伦比的。
评分如果要用一个词来形容阅读此书的感受,那便是“迷人”——但这是一种带着危险气息的迷人。它成功地构建了一个充满悖论的世界:光明与黑暗的界限模糊不清,英雄往往带着丑陋的秘密,而看似卑劣的角色却可能持有至高的道德准则。这种对二元对立的颠覆,让我不得不频繁地暂停,仔细揣摩作者抛出的那些哲学诘问。与其说这是一部情节驱动的小说,不如说它更像是一场漫长而艰深的辩论,只不过这场辩论是通过人物的行动和命运来完成的。我特别欣赏作者在处理道德困境时的那种中立和克制,他从不急于给出标准答案,而是将选择权完全交还给了读者。这种高度的开放性,使得每个人都能从书中读出自己最私密、最深层的恐惧与渴望。整本书的结构也颇具匠心,它像一幅精美的挂毯,每一条线索都是独立的,但当你退后一步审视整体时,所有的色彩和纹理都完美地融合在一起,形成一幅震撼人心的画面。
评分这本书给我最深刻的印象,在于它对于“环境”的描写达到了近乎诗意的境界。这里的环境不仅仅指自然风光,更包括了渗透在空气中、弥漫在建筑缝隙里的那种难以言喻的氛围感。无论是描绘阴郁潮湿的北方小镇,还是光线刺眼、充满异域情调的贸易港口,作者都能调动起读者所有的感官——你能闻到海水的咸味,听到远处传来的模糊的叫卖声,甚至能感觉到皮肤上细微的汗毛被夜风吹拂的颤栗。这种极强的场所感,使得角色们的命运似乎都与他们所处的环境紧密地交织在一起,环境不再是背景板,而是参与到叙事中的重要角色。更难能可贵的是,作者在宏大的历史背景下,依旧能聚焦于个体生命的微光,将那些宏大的主题,比如权力更迭、身份认同等,巧妙地融入到普通人的一日三餐、一次偶然的邂逅之中,使得作品既有史诗般的厚重感,又不失小人物的温情与悲凉。
评分这本书的叙事声调变化多端,从开篇那种近乎童谣般的轻快叙述,到中段对社会不公现象的尖锐讽刺,再到最后回归到一种近乎宿命论的平静接受,其音域之广令人惊叹。它巧妙地避开了许多传统文学中常见的窠臼,例如刻板的善恶对立,或者过于戏剧化的冲突爆发。相反,它更专注于展现生活本身的“惰性”和“惯性”——那些缓慢积累的怨恨,那些不易察觉的妥协,最终是如何铸就一个人乃至一个时代的悲剧。阅读过程中,我仿佛被作者拉着,经历了一场漫长而艰辛的朝圣之旅,每走一步都伴随着精神上的洗礼和重塑。这本书的力量不在于它提供了多少令人振奋的答案,而在于它提出了足够多的、无法回避的好问题。它不是那种读完后立刻合上便可束之高阁的作品,它会像一颗种子埋在心底,在未来的某个不经意的瞬间,重新发芽,提醒你那些曾经在文字中遇到的深刻洞察。
评分这本小说读起来就像是进入了一个色彩斑斓却又处处暗藏玄机的迷宫。作者对人物心理的刻画入木三分,那些细微的情感波动,那些难以言喻的内心挣扎,都被笔触细腻地捕捉了下来,让人在阅读过程中不时地会产生“原来我也有过类似的感觉”的共鸣。故事的节奏把握得相当精准,时而舒缓,像夏日午后的微风拂过心头,让人沉浸在角色的日常琐事中;时而又陡然紧张,一系列意想不到的转折像被突然拉紧的琴弦,让人屏息凝神,生怕错过任何一个关键的细节。我尤其欣赏的是作者在构建世界观时所展现出的那种近乎偏执的想象力,那些虚构的社会结构、独特的文化习俗,都显得那么的真实可信,仿佛触手可及。读完合上书本的那一刻,脑海中挥之不去的是那些鲜活的面孔和那些未竟的悬念,它留给读者的思考空间,远比故事本身要广阔得多。这是一次酣畅淋漓的精神漫游,值得细细品味。
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