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Title: Not Impeccable
Review: Along with a group of tenured female colleagues, I take issue with MOST of the advice in this book--it's embedded with all manner of weird prejudice (fat people are better than thin people; men are always dangerous; Emily Toth is God). The book espouses feminism but violates the basic precepts of feminism--taking risks, being humane, celebrating self and others. Why does she so rarely answer questions constructively? A bunch of us suspect that she makes up the letters herself, by the way--which makes the answers even more ludicrous.All in all, this book is a curiously defensive, gutless approach to surviving academic life--not creative or provocative or even useful in terms of practical advice.
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