📘 ❞ Notes from an Incomplete Revolution Real Life Since Feminism ملاحظات من ثورة غير مكتملة الحياة الحقيقية منذ الحركة النسوية ❝ كتاب ــ ميريديث ماران اصدار 1997

❞ Today we earn more money than our mothers did, at jobs they never dreamed of doing. We are less likely to stay in unhappy marriages, to bear unwanted
children. But have we achieved what we set out to accomplish? Do women--whether they˝re twenty or forty or sixty--feel more in control of their lives? Has feminism made us more--or less--fulfilled in our relationships with men and with each other? . ❝

❞ Meredith Maran˝s first book, What It˝s Like to Live Now , was an amazingly candid and often hilarious memoir of her journey from a sixties idealist to a nineties new woman, complete with two teenage sons, a female lover, and a hefty mortgage. Now, with the same reckless honesty, she returns to explore life--hers and ours, female and male--in the wake of the women˝s movement . ❝

❞ Looking into the lives of these young people, in this American town, at this time in history, we see more than what˝s true---and what˝s possible--for Berkeley High. We see what˝s true and what˝s possible for America . ❝

❞ From the outside, Jordan˝s life looks perfect. He hangs out with the ˝rich white kids˝; rows on the crew team, has a cool mom, applied early to an East Coast college. But Jordan˝s drug-addicted father died last year, leaving Jordan reeling with grief and anger that makes his life feel anything but perfect-and his future suddenly seem uncertain . ❝

❞ Autumn was ten when her father abandoned her family; since then she˝s been helping her mother raise her two little brothers and keep food on the table-while keeping her grades up so she can go to college. Her faith in God gives Autumn strength, but who will give her the money she needs when she˝s offered the opportunity of a lifetime؟ . ❝

❞ Exploring the psychological, cultural, and neuroscientific causes of this modern American witch-hunt, My Lie asks: how could so many people come to believe the same lie at the same time? What has neuroscience discovered about the brain\\˝s capacity to create false memories and encode false beliefs? What are the ˝big lies˝ gaining traction in American culture today--and how can we keep them from taking hold؟ . ❝

❞ Eager to escape her damaging past and chart her own future, Alison Rose is drawn to Zoe, a free-spirited artist who offers emotional stability and a love outside the norm. After many happy years together, the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake deepens fissures in the two women’s relationship, and Alison leaves Zoe for a new, ˝normal” life with a man. Alison’s son is the outcome of both of these complicated relationships, and the three parents strive to create a life together that will test the boundaries of love and family in changing times . ❝