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Title: Provocative and well-researched
Review: This should be required reading, not only for any newly engaged woman, but for EVERY unmarried woman in America. I am 39 and will be 40 when my fiance and I marry - and I wish I had read this book sometime during my 18 "single" years as an independent adult. The notion of marriage as the most, even the only, valuable social unit in our culture is so widely accepted that we fail to see how cruelly we force ourselves to adhere to its demands. As women, we have the right to be nurtured, understood and encouraged in our own right, not only as wives or potential wives. And as women who choose to marry, we need to know what traditions we are truly carrying on; as the author insists, it is incumbent upon us to generate independent intentions for our own lives outside of these outmoded expectations.
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