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Catfight

Women and Competition

By: Leora Tanenbaum

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Hardcover | 1 August 2011 | Edition Number 1

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21.1 x 14.1 x 2.5

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Catfight: Women and Competition is Leora Tanenbaum's dissection of the gender war waged among women. Tanenbaum meticulously analyzes the roots of destructive competitiveness among women, asserting that "catfights" thrive because, despite women's many gains, American women are conditioned to regard each other as adversaries rather than allies. She investigates the arenas-from diets to dating, from the boardroom to the delivery room- in which American women are apt to compare their lives with the lives of others in a tacit contest over who is the "better" woman, a contest in which no one wins.
Throughout Catfight, Leora Tanenbaum puts her own life experiences under the lens of scrutiny. As a writer, a friend, a mother, a wife, and a daughter, she analyzes her own insecurities and background and how these influence her relations with other women. With the sociologist's perspective of a Barbara Ehrenreich and the feminist outrage of a Gloria Steinem, Tanenbaum demythologizes the age-old "catfight."

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"Leora is one of the most astute and thoughtful of the new generation of feminist writers." - Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation and Bitch; "Tanenbaum [has made a] bold step into the literary world to start a bold discussion." - Newsday; "An eye-opening book." - Redbook

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Introduction	p. 13
The Roots of the Problem	p. 37
Learning to Compete	p. 39
Women Divided by Class and Race	p. 49
Women and Resentment	p. 55
Women's "Essential" Nature	p. 58
Indirect Aggression	p. 61
Members Only	p. 64
Healthy Competition	p. 70
Beauty	p. 77
The Beauty Bind	p. 82
Young, Thin, White	p. 88
... And Well Dressed	p. 94
History of the American Beauty Ideal	p. 98
Miss America	p. 105
Feminism and Beauty	p. 113
Cosmetic Surgery	p. 116
Who's the Thinnest of Them All?	p. 119
Eating Disorders	p. 126
Dieting Mothers, Dieting Daughters	p. 130
Dating	p. 135
The Other Woman in Literature	p. 139
Dollars and Dependence	p. 145
The New Singles Culture	p. 151
The Other Woman Today	p. 159
When the Other Woman Is Your Friend	p. 165
Here Comes the Bride	p. 169
Work	p. 173
Sex Discrimination: Yes, It Still Exists	p. 178
Job Insecurity	p. 183
Tough as Nails	p. 192
The Powerful Woman	p. 196
The Female Advantage	p. 204
Soft as Silk	p. 209
Caution: Women At Work	p. 218
Motherhood	p. 225
The Isolation of New Mothers	p. 228
The Sacrificial Mother	p. 236
The Biggest Antagonism	p. 249
Working Mothers	p. 255
Stay-At-Home Mothers	p. 267
When Women Work Together	p. 275
The Suffrage Movement	p. 275
Women in Sports Today	p. 283
The Most Feminine Athlete Wins	p. 291
Epilogue	p. 303
Notes	p. 307
Acknowledgments	p. 325
Index	p. 327
About the author	p. 336
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