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...there is a more crucial reason, hinted at in an earlier chapter titled "The American Response," why these contemporary survivors hardly survive as real people in Howe's book. Although Howe obviously did not have the space to cite more than a few examples, the overall impression left by this chapter is that the theories of contemporary writers like Henry Adams and Henry James had more to do with shaping American attitudes toward the Jews than did the achievements of the immigrants themselves. Even more importantly, Howe hints that the dominant opinion in America worked against the immigrants' struggle...
Like the first edition, this one opens with the chapter on "Our Changing Sense of Self." Although it seems less revolutionary now that it did in the early '70s, this section, like the "Sexuality" chapter, still grabs the women who read it for the first time. Throughout the book, women find experiences included in the presentation similar to their own, a feeling another woman has expressed that coincides with one they could not themselves express. There's a lot of information here, too, about where to look for medical advice if you're not satisfied with their informal presentation...
...Like any other group that works together closely, there are times that are difficult, in one individual's life. We work very slowly," Berger says, describing the process by which most of the book was written. Several women research the information for a chapter, one writes it up, shows it to the others for comments and criticism, and takes it back to work some more. "There'll be times when the people in New York are demanding we get something done by the next day, and we'll just have to say we can't do it, because someone...
...Kentucky, and the second edition contains a lot of material they say was prompted by letters asking for information. "People treat us as if they'd known us for a long time," Berger says. "One letter came criticizing us--and rightly--for not having anything in any of our chapter about women who have their babies and have to give them up for adoption; but the tone of the letter was hurt, as if we were old friends who had let her down...
Because many of the areas the Bodies, Ourselves group deal with had never been fully explored by the people they refer to somewhat off-handedly as 'the' experts,' much of their research has to be done first-hand, through personal interviews and surveys. Berger describes putting together the chapter on aging that appears in the second edition. She sent out hundreds of questionnaires, she says, and she was amazed at the responses she received. Women between the ages of 20 and 40--women who are supposed to be at the height of their sexual activity--complained far more frequently...