Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act, why are women still living in a man’s world?
Debora L. Spar never thought of herself as a feminist. Raised after the tumult of the 1960s, she presumed the gender war was over. As one of the youngest female professors to be tenured at Harvard Business School and a mother of three, she swore to young women that they could have it all. “We thought we could just glide into the new era of equality, with babies, board seats, and husbands in tow,” she writes. “We were wrong.”
Now she is the president of Barnard College, arguably the most important all-women’s college in the United States. And in Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection—a fresh, wise, original book— she asks why, a half century after the publication of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, do women still feel stuck.
In this groundbreaking and compulsively readable book, Spar explores how American women’s lives have—and have not—changed over the past fifty years. Armed with reams of new research, she details how women struggled for power and instead got stuck in an endless quest for perfection. The challenges confronting women are more complex than ever, and they are challenges that come inherently and inevitably from being female. Spar is acutely aware that it’s time to change course.
Both deeply personal and statistically rich, Wonder Women is Spar’s story and the story of our culture. It is cultural history at its best, and a road map for the future.
Debora L. Spar is the president of Barnard College, a women’s undergraduate college affiliated with Columbia University. She received her doctorate in government from Harvard University and was the Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Spar is the author of numerous books, including Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Invention, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet and The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception.
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读完之后,我不得不承认,这本书在情感冲击力方面具有一种近乎残酷的力量。它毫不留情地撕开了现代社会中那些被美化或忽视的角落,探讨了权力腐蚀、个体抗争的徒劳与价值等沉重主题。作者处理悲剧的手法非常成熟,没有滥用煽情,但那种压抑的悲凉感却无处不在,像潮水一样缓缓浸透读者的心房。我个人对书中几位边缘人物的命运尤其感触深刻,他们的挣扎,那种在历史洪流中被轻易碾碎的无力感,让我感同身受,甚至在阅读过程中数次不得不停下来,需要时间来平复情绪。这不是一本让你看完心情愉悦的书,但它绝对是一本能让你思考“我们究竟如何才能活得有意义”的深刻作品。它像一面冷峻的镜子,反射出一些我们宁愿视而不见的人性弱点和结构性弊端,迫使我们直面那些不适的真相。
评分我通常对篇幅较长的作品有些耐心不足,但这本书的章节安排堪称教科书级别的范例。每个章节的结尾,都设置了一个巧妙的悬念或者一个意想不到的转折,这种“钩子”的使用极其精准,让你几乎不可能放下书本。它的结构不是简单的线性叙事,而是像一个精密的钟表,不同时间线、不同人物的视角,都在恰当的时机交汇、碰撞,最终汇聚到一个高潮点。作者在处理多线叙事时的功力令人叹服,读者完全不会感到混乱,反而能清晰地看到各个线索是如何如同细密的丝线,最终编织成一张巨大而严密的网。这种高超的叙事控制力,让整个阅读过程保持了一种极高的紧张感和流畅性,时间仿佛在你手中被拉伸和压缩,完全随着作者的意图在走。看完最后一个字,那种意犹未尽的感觉,更多的是对作者精湛技艺的敬佩,而不是故事戛然而止的遗憾。
评分这本书给我的整体感受是,它在构建世界观上展现了令人惊叹的想象力和严谨的逻辑性。作者显然为这个虚构的世界投入了海量的心血,从其政治结构、社会阶层,到独特的文化习俗和科技发展水平,都拥有自洽且完善的体系。然而,最难能可贵的是,这种宏大的设定并未压倒故事本身。作者非常高明地将这些庞杂的背景信息,以一种自然而然的方式,通过角色的日常对话、历史遗迹的描绘,以及突发事件的反应中逐步揭示出来,避免了传统“信息倾泻”式的笨拙。我仿佛是亲身踏入了这个陌生的疆域,在探索故事主线的同时,也在不断地拼凑着这个世界的全貌。这种“发现”的过程极大地增强了阅读的参与感和智力上的满足感。那种感觉就像是在玩一个极其复杂的解谜游戏,每解开一个谜团,都对整体结构有了更深一层的理解,让人欲罢不能,总想知道下一块拼图在哪里。
评分这本书的叙事节奏简直像一场疾驰的列车,从翻开第一页起,就完全被卷入了一个错综复杂、引人入胜的世界。作者的笔触极为细腻,尤其是在描绘人物内心挣扎与成长的部分,简直是神来之笔。我能真切地感受到主角们在面对巨大困境时那种近乎窒息的压抑,以及在绝望中寻找一线生机的微弱火花。故事的背景设定非常宏大,但作者巧妙地将焦点始终聚焦在个体的情感体验上,使得那些史诗般的冲突不再是遥不可及的背景板,而是直接作用于角色命运的催化剂。我特别欣赏作者处理道德模糊地带的方式,没有简单粗暴地划分“好人”与“坏蛋”,每个人都有自己的立场和不得已的苦衷,这种复杂性让整个故事充满了张力和思辨的深度。读完后,那种回味无穷的感觉久久不散,仿佛自己也参与了一场漫长而深刻的旅程,许多关于人性、选择与牺牲的思考,至今仍在脑海中盘旋不去。它不是那种让你读完就束之高阁的消遣读物,更像是一部需要反复咀嚼才能领会其中真味的艺术品,结构之精巧,布局之严密,着实令人拍案叫绝。
评分坦白说,这本书的书写风格初看之下有些挑战性,它不像时下流行的快餐文学那样直白易懂,反而带着一种古典的、近乎诗歌般的韵律感。句子往往很长,充满了精妙的比喻和象征,需要读者放慢速度,细细品味每一个词语的选择和排列。但这恰恰是其魅力所在。作者对语言的掌控力达到了炉火纯青的地步,他(她)构建的场景栩栩如生,仿佛触手可及;空气中的气味、光线的变化、甚至角色衣料的摩擦声,都清晰可辨。这种沉浸式的体验是极少数作品才能达到的高度。我花了比平时更多的时间来阅读,不是因为情节晦涩,而是因为我情不自禁地想要停下来,去欣赏那些句子本身的美感。它更像是一场视觉盛宴,用文字构建了一个无比华丽且充满隐喻的迷宫,引领着读者在其中探索。对于那些追求纯粹文字美感和文学深度的读者来说,这本书无疑是一场不容错过的盛宴。
评分social structure and feminist shape modern woman, pushing them further away from who and how they were 7 decades ago. it provides multiple perspectives to understand how and why we become who we are. most ironical conclusion from the book: feminist itself is the constrains for woman's role in social; or push to the opposing way they propose.
评分女权应让女性拥有更多的选择,而不是have it all的压力和疲惫。让渡部分对“完美”的追求。承认性别带来的性、身体、生育等不同之处,而非刻意追求男女平等。
评分social structure and feminist shape modern woman, pushing them further away from who and how they were 7 decades ago. it provides multiple perspectives to understand how and why we become who we are. most ironical conclusion from the book: feminist itself is the constrains for woman's role in social; or push to the opposing way they propose.
评分女权应让女性拥有更多的选择,而不是have it all的压力和疲惫。让渡部分对“完美”的追求。承认性别带来的性、身体、生育等不同之处,而非刻意追求男女平等。
评分social structure and feminist shape modern woman, pushing them further away from who and how they were 7 decades ago. it provides multiple perspectives to understand how and why we become who we are. most ironical conclusion from the book: feminist itself is the constrains for woman's role in social; or push to the opposing way they propose.
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