基本信息出版社：Seal Press
页码：325 页
出版日期：2007年09月
ISBN：1580052231
International Standard Book Number：1580052231
条形码：9781580052238
EAN：9781580052238
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语

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What does it truly mean to be a modern woman? Do women still hunger for that fairytale life?

In Kill the Princess author Stephanie Vermeulen tackles a wide range of issues facing women today, from body image to popular notions of femininity, from women’s business personas to the politics of family. In an attempt to keep everything together and strive for unattainably perfect lives, women increasingly fall prey to exhaustion and fatigue. A huge reason for this, Vermeulen agues, is that women are still programmed to be self-sacrificing and as a result don’t take care of themselves. Vermeulen uncovers that although women hold their own—they are earning more, maintaining jobs and family, and indeed have more freedoms than they did even 30 years ago—their personal, artistic, and professional needs continue to go unnoticed and unmet.

Hard-hitting, provocative, and empowering, Kill the Princess is a wake-up call for women everywhere, shedding light on the ways that society naturally expects more from women but fails to fully recognize and respect their efforts and results. Verlmeulen’s serious but ultimately hopeful message is that women deserve better, and it is time that they demand it.
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly

Emotional intelligence expert and motivational speaker Vermeulen (EQ: Emotional Intelligence for Everyone) won't help revitalize feminism with this stereotyping polemic against what she sees as women's terminal self-sacrifice. Touching on issues like body image, mother-daughter relationships and societal constraints, Vermeulen offers not a self-help seminar for unhappy women, but a one-sided lecture telling them why they're depressed (men have suppressed them) and how to gain power over their lives (find their life work and their inner bitch). Vermeulen uses feminist fairy tales to make her point. In Jane and the Brainstalk, for instance, Jack pumps iron while sister Jane draws water, harvests the fields and caters to her lazy, conniving brother. The message? Men are exploitative, violent pigs, and women should rightfully take power. Vermeulen seems to be living in her own fairy tale world ruled by good (women) and evil (men). While tearing apart female stereotypes, she typecasts men. Although the author touches on important truths about persisting gender inequality, she doesn't add to our understanding of them. If Vermeulen is going to connect with a postfeminist generation, she's going to have to find a more balanced approach. (Oct.)
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