Why Women Cry : or, Wenches With Wrenches (c1943)
This book is addressed to all women who have ever felt that if, without a vacation of some sort, they must wash that dish, iron that shirt, cook that meal, see that child, kiss that husband again, they would go mad. It is also addressed to all the women who fear they will go mad if ever they have to wash the dishes, iron their husbands' shirts, do all the cooking, and take full care of their children every day.
This book is for those women. And for all the men who are thinking about marrying, or are married to such women.
Maybe the book is even a little more for those men than for the women. Because a great many men have never thought about these homely matters—and if they don't start thinking soon, they may very well be overtaken by a major revolt on the part of their wives and prospective wives. A lot of men already have found their homes being run a little unsatisfactorily. They have found their wives a trifle glum and their children a bit quarrelsome.
But how would the men like to find themselves without any homes or wives or children at all?
The world has been told, to the vomiting point, that a revolution is now in progress. Men: this revolution is likely to be brewing right in your own kitchen. It's likely to hit.
For we also have all been notified that the day of the Common Man is coming up. Don't think the Common Woman is just sitting around preparing to spend the whole of that day in the kitchen. Over five million American women between the ages of twenty and thirty-five have gone on record as wishing to have successful careers. Two thirds of the group wished to combine the career with marriage. Many millions more would be added to this number if women over thirty-five, especially those whose children are now grown, were consulted.
Whether or not a woman has a "career," surely the vast majority of American women do not believe that woman's place is solely in the home. Equally surely the vast majority of American women want a home, a husband, and children. This book is concerned with ways and means of keeping the home and letting the female as well as the male get away from it from time to time.
Although this book was written in wartime, whether or not it is read before or after a peace is declared, is of little importance. You will see as I report that the behavior of most of the workers in the airplane engine plant and of the various types of men and women in other kinds of work in wartime, has not changed very radically from what it was before the war. The basic problems of women have not changed at all. War has only sharpened the problems.
It is not the purpose of this book to lay out plans for winning the war and the peace in a hurry or taking care of the welfare of the majority of the people in wartime, although many of the suggestions I shall make are essential to these ends in my opinion.
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This book is for those women. And for all the men who are thinking about marrying, or are married to such women.
Maybe the book is even a little more for those men than for the women. Because a great many men have never thought about these homely matters—and if they don't start thinking soon, they may very well be overtaken by a major revolt on the part of their wives and prospective wives. A lot of men already have found their homes being run a little unsatisfactorily. They have found their wives a trifle glum and their children a bit quarrelsome.
But how would the men like to find themselves without any homes or wives or children at all?
The world has been told, to the vomiting point, that a revolution is now in progress. Men: this revolution is likely to be brewing right in your own kitchen. It's likely to hit.
For we also have all been notified that the day of the Common Man is coming up. Don't think the Common Woman is just sitting around preparing to spend the whole of that day in the kitchen. Over five million American women between the ages of twenty and thirty-five have gone on record as wishing to have successful careers. Two thirds of the group wished to combine the career with marriage. Many millions more would be added to this number if women over thirty-five, especially those whose children are now grown, were consulted.
Whether or not a woman has a "career," surely the vast majority of American women do not believe that woman's place is solely in the home. Equally surely the vast majority of American women want a home, a husband, and children. This book is concerned with ways and means of keeping the home and letting the female as well as the male get away from it from time to time.
Although this book was written in wartime, whether or not it is read before or after a peace is declared, is of little importance. You will see as I report that the behavior of most of the workers in the airplane engine plant and of the various types of men and women in other kinds of work in wartime, has not changed very radically from what it was before the war. The basic problems of women have not changed at all. War has only sharpened the problems.
It is not the purpose of this book to lay out plans for winning the war and the peace in a hurry or taking care of the welfare of the majority of the people in wartime, although many of the suggestions I shall make are essential to these ends in my opinion.
Why Women Cry : or, Wenches With Wrenches (c1943)
This book is addressed to all women who have ever felt that if, without a vacation of some sort, they must wash that dish, iron that shirt, cook that meal, see that child, kiss that husband again, they would go mad. It is also addressed to all the women who fear they will go mad if ever they have to wash the dishes, iron their husbands' shirts, do all the cooking, and take full care of their children every day.
This book is for those women. And for all the men who are thinking about marrying, or are married to such women.
Maybe the book is even a little more for those men than for the women. Because a great many men have never thought about these homely matters—and if they don't start thinking soon, they may very well be overtaken by a major revolt on the part of their wives and prospective wives. A lot of men already have found their homes being run a little unsatisfactorily. They have found their wives a trifle glum and their children a bit quarrelsome.
But how would the men like to find themselves without any homes or wives or children at all?
The world has been told, to the vomiting point, that a revolution is now in progress. Men: this revolution is likely to be brewing right in your own kitchen. It's likely to hit.
For we also have all been notified that the day of the Common Man is coming up. Don't think the Common Woman is just sitting around preparing to spend the whole of that day in the kitchen. Over five million American women between the ages of twenty and thirty-five have gone on record as wishing to have successful careers. Two thirds of the group wished to combine the career with marriage. Many millions more would be added to this number if women over thirty-five, especially those whose children are now grown, were consulted.
Whether or not a woman has a "career," surely the vast majority of American women do not believe that woman's place is solely in the home. Equally surely the vast majority of American women want a home, a husband, and children. This book is concerned with ways and means of keeping the home and letting the female as well as the male get away from it from time to time.
Although this book was written in wartime, whether or not it is read before or after a peace is declared, is of little importance. You will see as I report that the behavior of most of the workers in the airplane engine plant and of the various types of men and women in other kinds of work in wartime, has not changed very radically from what it was before the war. The basic problems of women have not changed at all. War has only sharpened the problems.
It is not the purpose of this book to lay out plans for winning the war and the peace in a hurry or taking care of the welfare of the majority of the people in wartime, although many of the suggestions I shall make are essential to these ends in my opinion.
This book is for those women. And for all the men who are thinking about marrying, or are married to such women.
Maybe the book is even a little more for those men than for the women. Because a great many men have never thought about these homely matters—and if they don't start thinking soon, they may very well be overtaken by a major revolt on the part of their wives and prospective wives. A lot of men already have found their homes being run a little unsatisfactorily. They have found their wives a trifle glum and their children a bit quarrelsome.
But how would the men like to find themselves without any homes or wives or children at all?
The world has been told, to the vomiting point, that a revolution is now in progress. Men: this revolution is likely to be brewing right in your own kitchen. It's likely to hit.
For we also have all been notified that the day of the Common Man is coming up. Don't think the Common Woman is just sitting around preparing to spend the whole of that day in the kitchen. Over five million American women between the ages of twenty and thirty-five have gone on record as wishing to have successful careers. Two thirds of the group wished to combine the career with marriage. Many millions more would be added to this number if women over thirty-five, especially those whose children are now grown, were consulted.
Whether or not a woman has a "career," surely the vast majority of American women do not believe that woman's place is solely in the home. Equally surely the vast majority of American women want a home, a husband, and children. This book is concerned with ways and means of keeping the home and letting the female as well as the male get away from it from time to time.
Although this book was written in wartime, whether or not it is read before or after a peace is declared, is of little importance. You will see as I report that the behavior of most of the workers in the airplane engine plant and of the various types of men and women in other kinds of work in wartime, has not changed very radically from what it was before the war. The basic problems of women have not changed at all. War has only sharpened the problems.
It is not the purpose of this book to lay out plans for winning the war and the peace in a hurry or taking care of the welfare of the majority of the people in wartime, although many of the suggestions I shall make are essential to these ends in my opinion.
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| BN ID: | 2940013832398 |
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| Publisher: | tbooks |
| Publication date: | 12/11/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
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| Pages: | 252 |
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