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The book's strength lies in Maria Svelands honesty and conviction: her anger, sorrow, powerlessness and rebelliousness reach out to us in a way that feels absolutely genuine. There should be a law demanding that all parents-to-be must read this book. "This is one of the books that really gets at you. And it is entertaining. (...) It is not just a polemic, not just divisive, not narrow-minded. After Bitterfittan the discussions round the dinner table can do more for equality than all the extremist speeches in the world."
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HTML: On a miserable January morning, Sarah is sitting on a plane to Tenerife, Spainâ??without her husband or her childrenâ??for a week-long vacation. At the age of thirty, she's just realized that she's very angry with her life, her choices, and her familyâ??and that she's becoming a bitter bitch. For plane reading, she carries a copy of Erica Jong's Fear of Flying and suddenly wishes it were 1975 instead of 2005â??although she wonders how things have gotten so bad that all she craves is a full night's sleep instead of a zipless f**k. No library descriptions found.
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So, this is basically a feminist look at modern heterosexual relationships, marriage, having kids and so on. Both the author and the main character are married, but against marriage as an institution. I don't know how much of it is autobiographical, but I think a lot of it must be, a lot of the anecdotes about men seems a little too real.
Because that part is very real, and very easy to recognize as woman. I have may not have had every encounter that the main character has with men, but I've had my fair share of them, and I've heard stories from other women. That's sadly how it is.
In general when people say "oh don't complain about men so much, be a lesbian instead" I think it's a bit of an over-simplification, but reading this book ... I kinda started to feel that way. Okay, so you don't believe men and women can have equal relationships while living in patriarchal society? You've problably got a point, but why is the solution to have an unequal relationship with a man, when it could be to have a more equal relationship with a woman?
Then again I realize that not all women are attracted to women (though I don't see how that's possible ...), so maybe this book is great for them. For anyone with the alternative, I don't see why it has to be such a big problem. Just because you love someone it doesn't mean you have to be in a relationship with them. ( )