Bad Feminist writes a mean blog and a good review:
As my feminist friends and I reach our mid- to late-twenties, and settle into stable relationships, we find ourselves asking more and more how one establishes and maintains a marriage. How do couples address, and rebel against, traditional gender roles? How do women address the occasional (or frequent) apathy they feel toward spouse and children? How do we address our envy/ anger/ disappointment/ fear/ suspicion that our partners "have it all" with such ease, while we struggle in a sexist world? Now Karen Propp and Jean Trounstine have edited a collection of twenty-four essays, in which women discuss "why I'm still married." The essayists
include authors Julia Alvarez and Erica Jong, women in different- and same-sex marriages, women married fifty years and women married one. Sounds like a must-read for feminists struggling to define themselves within a relationship, to hold onto the selves that existed without, and to have something worth hanging
onto afterward.

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