New Books About Women/Women's Rights

[Ryan Goble]

Caught a couple interesting reviews about books that deal with women/women's rights. The first book is about Helen Gurley Brown, Cosmo's longtime editor and author of “Sex and the Single Girl.” Saw two reviews of it - one in the New York Times, "Helen Gurley Brown: The Original Carrie Bradshaw" and the other in the New York Observer "A Woman Among Mad Men." While the reviews are mixed the book's thesis sounds interesting. The Observer points out that the author's intention is to "[firmly situate her her heroine] as the academics like to say, in an feminist trajectory that includes Atomic Age contemporaries Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem and Julia Child. Only Ms. Brown was richer, skinnier and had a lot more fun.

I also came across a review of The Means of Reproduction by Michelle Goldberg. It got a rave review from Time Out New York. This beginning of the review states the book's theme nicely:

"While most well-informed Americans know how globalism has changed world economies, few know how it affects women's rights. Michelle Goldberg sets out to rectify this in her groundbreaking new book, which exposes how policies concerning reproductive freedom inform the daily lives of women across the globe."

Just thought they might be of interest to some of y'all.

RRG:)