Earn Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women Curated By Nora Ephron Physical Book

feel so appreciative for all of the women who came before me that paved the way for women to have all of the options that we have today.
I really enjoyed learning more about this period in history where so much change was taking place, Some of the essays seemed really irrelevant and didn't stand the test of time, but many of them were still very interesting to read.
I learned aspects of the women's movement that I had never heard anything about before, A lot of the essays just happened to be written in the months just before and just after I was born, and it was really cool to read what was going on at that time.
No nací en esa época, no nací en ese país y no conozco a nadie de las personas relevantes que menciona en esta colección de artículos de actualidad feminista y política.
Pero es que, con wittiness y snappiness, me llega tanto al corazón su estilo, Casi me da la sensación de que voy aprendiendo a escribir según la leo,

Algunos artículos los pasé de largo, otros soy muy buenos, Como el primero sobre tetas y sus tetas, Uno de un bake off en Philadelphia también me gustó, El de la primera árbitro, que te sobrecoge, Ese de la mujer engañada de un gobernador que se negaba a ser abandonada tras haber construido singlehandedly la carrera de él.
O el de la devoción por estar mediatrained de la hija de Nixon, Y más, y más, Nora Ephron's contemporaneous review of the secondwave feminist movement is interesting in some ways and dated in others, Punctuated by occasional flashes of brilliance that appear much more consistently in her later work, I found this a compelling read mainly insofar as it provides a milestone in Ephron's writing career, and Nora Ephron is a writer I have come to care increasingly about since I read her other works 'I Hate My Neck' and 'Heartburn' especially.


First, the datedness: I will confess to not care very much about feuds in the secondwave feminist movement, I have maybe a faint idea of who Betty Friedan was, and who the other one was, so why they fought and who was to blame is just not that interesting to me, though I have no doubt it was compelling at the time.
The same goes to her at the time controversial evisceration of her alma mater Wellesley, which she described as having "turned out a generation of docile and unadventurous women".
I'm sure the subject must have been very fascinating to some people deeper into the millieu, But: I didn't care.

More seriously, there is an entire essay that is transphobic and gross so, . . this is a very strong reason to not read the collection, I'm putting this under 'datedness', because do I think secondwave feminism was deeply troubling for a whole host of reasons, including the transexclusionary ideology that was very common amongst its proponents Yes.
Do I think transphobia and claims about 'real womanhood' adjacent to, eyeroll, 'universal womanhood' exist in contemporary social discourse and are people hurt by it now Definitely!!! Either way, it's a cruel, cutting little essay and in this instance Ephron is certainly punching down rather than up for her beloved copy.


The strengths: I thought that Ephron is at her joyous best when she digs into human follity, You saw it a little in her essays about Friedan and whoever else I can't decide if it's my bad memory, or the forgettableness of the whole thing, that makes me not be able to remember, but again those did tend to lapse into 'and then X said' and 'Y did that'.
Capitalising on those strengths, I liked: the essays about consciousnessraising, being a journalist versus a feminist, the piece about The Palm Beach Social, and Upstairs, Downstairs.
And of course, because I've always said Ephron is at her best when she lets the pain wink through, the piece about her mother's mink.
I enjoyed this lively though at times quite serious collection of Ephron's columns from thes,

Ephron begins with several uninhibited pieces, In "A Few Words About Breasts," she reveals that insecurity about the size of her breasts is her selfdefining characteristic, In "On Never Having Been a Prom Queen," she revisits the theme: "Once I had a date with someone who thought I was beautiful.
He talked all night, while Iwho spent years developing my conversational ability to compensate for my looks my life has been spent in compensationsaid nothing.
At the end of the evening, he made a pass at me, and I was insulted, "

Mostly this book focuses on the Women's Movement, Ephron identifies herself as a feminist and writes from inside the storm of early Women's Lib, At her Wellesley reunion, Ephron feels embarrassment on behalf of her fellow alums who are staying home to raise children "housewives," in the parlance of.
She sympathizes with Gloria Steinem, found crying and feeling betrayed by George McGovern at theDemocratic Convention, Eprhon issues a lengthy, detailed, and altogether wonderful condemnation of female deodorant spray, And, with open jaw, she observes women competing in the annual Pillsbury BakeOff, Yet Ephron is unable to support all feminist efforts: she wonders what to say when reviewing a prowoman book that isn't actually very good in one essay, and in another she recounts how joining a consciousnessraising group ruined her marriage.


The later essays collected here, from the midtolates, are more frivolous and less gripping than her earlier efforts, I mostly skipped the pieces where she summarizes the plot of "Upstairs, Downstairs" and the content of Gourmet magazine, adding her own opinions here and there.


One thing that disturbed me about this book is Ephron's habit of criticizing real people by name, In one instance, she identifies her highschool boyfriend, Buster Klepper, as a pimpled, not "terribly bright" boy, I wonder what hapless Klepper and his mother who also makes an appearance did to deserve Eprhon's derision, Similarly, Eprhon ridicules Christine Turpin, newsletter editor for Eprhon's coop building, for her journalistic efforts,
Qué lista, qué aguda y qué graciosa es Nora Ephron, Creo que no me voy a cansar nunca de consumir cualquier tipo d producto cultural q lleve su firma, Este libro es un compendio de algunas de sus columnas creo, Hay algunas que me ha costado más entender porque son antiguas, hablan de situaciones políticas muy concretas de EEUU de los años.
Aún así, son graciosas, Habla de la violencia obstétrica, de la píldora y las barbaridades que se hicieron mientras se formulaba, de los desodorantes vaginales WTF, de los grupos de concienciación.
. . Cómo debería ser leída una colección de artículos escritos a lo largo de los setenta por una periodista que pasaría a la posteridad por revolucionar, una década más tarde, la comedia romántica Seguramente no como una biblia del feminismo, como una obra perfecta y completa, sino como un trabajo en marcha, una fotografía de su tiempo.
Y así creo que funciona este volumen, como un retrato de algunos de los debates, los logros y los fracasos del movimiento de liberación de la mujer estadounidense, en el momento en que se producían, trazados por una buena observadora.
Así, algunos textos parecen hoy de otro mundo, o eso me gustaría pensar la misoginia interiorizada de la autora, los puntitos homófobos, la ligereza con la que se trata la violencia machista, y otros parecen de ayer mismo las críticas a la cooptación capitalista del feminismo, las dudas sobre la articulación parlamentaria del movimiento, los cuestionamientos sobre el deseo o sobre el propio desacuerdo dentro del feminismo.
Sobre todo esto Nora Ephron escribe con acidez, humor, distancia y honestidad, Claro que una lectora feminista de hoy no le daría la razón en todo, pero quizás no sea esto lo importante.
Nora Ephron recently passed away, I enjoyed her writing and movies so much that as a tribute Id read her other books,

This one shed a lot of light on the timesthru, She was a strong voice for womens liberation and wrote and represented the cause, These essays appeared in Esquire, New York, The Rolling Stone, and The New Yorker,

I was very much impressed with her thoughts and insight, The look back fascinated me as usual, I was in high school and didnt really realize how women were kept “oppressed” to put it mildly,

Books she mentioned I need to read
The Best of EverythingRona Jaffe To Nora “it caught perfectly the awful essence of being single in a big city”

Laughing All The WayBarbara Howar A socialite who did ridiculous things

An Unfinished WomanLillian Hellman memoir also a bit of Dorothy Parker
Crazy Salad Nora Ephron Ephron amuses me, even if I don't always agree with her.

 

 

Its been a long time since I read this, which Ive wanted to do ever since the recent Ephron buddy binge with Veronica.
But I couldnt find our copy, And then I did! It was a housekeeping miracle,

These essays originally appeared in the early seventies for Esquire, So in turn, that ties back into the womens college tour, and the Steinem emphasis of this spring,


I say “our copy”, but it isnt: its the Spouses copy that he brought to the marriage, That makes this one of the reasons why I married him, The books and the feminist cred, Personal copy I'm worried Wellesley might rescind my degree for this rating, but transphobia means an automatic,

A few of these essays are fantastic: the one about Wellesley "Reunion", was the first time a "legendary" alum made me feel seen the one about the Pillsbury cookoff FDS Porter goes to the convention.


But, even in the first few essays I found myself asking, "Did Nora Ephron actually hate women" By that point she'd rejected the idea

that women can contain contradictions, said she thinks menstrual cramps are fake, and doesn't feel right dismissing the opinions of belittling men.
Internalized misogyny is so real, esp, in the's.

As someone else wrote, maybe a good editor should rerelease a revised version of this, maybe with the most harmful essays in the back with a warning kinda like Disney has on some of their movies.
I take my mentorship where I can find it, Like in the pages of Nora Ephrons formative essays This was going fourgreat so many interesting anecdotes! pretty fascinating to see a woman's point of view on the women's lib movement as it was happening until I got to the very last essay, which is filled to the brim with ignorant, unapologetic transphobia from the author and misogyny from the transperson the article is about, which.
. . well, really put a dampener on my feelings about the book, I'd have taken the rating all the way down to one or two save for the fact that this was written in thes, which isn't really much of an excuse at all.
This is marketed as a humor book, and it's not although that's not to say that Ephron doesn't write with a sharp, wry sense of humor, because she does.
What it is, is a book of essays, articles, and columns, from thes, on feminism, women, culture, and personal experiences,

The writing style is deeply engaging I had a lot of trouble putting this book down, and I was deeply impressed with Ephron's sharp, unfailing honesty particularly as the topic she spends the most time being honest about is herself.
But this book was also an eyeopener for me, I've always been aware of the fact that feminism has not been a longrunning movement which is why I find comments about "not needing feminism" anymore to be so silly, because: are you kidding me You really think all the prejudices have been eradicated Please.
But I had no idea things were quite, . . quite the way they were for women as recently as thes, Thes were yesterday, and getting a window into what it was like for women in thes was more than an eyeopener: it was something of a complete shift in my perspective.


I consider myself a feminist in that I simply think men and women should be equal, Craziness, right If you think the same and you find veryrecent history to be as interesting as I do I've been interested in thess for years give this one a try.
It's funny, it's depressing, it's thoughtprovoking, it's infuriating, . . and it's got a few moments of surprising poignancy, Great stuff. So at first thought, all I could think was "holy white feminism", So many of these essays are missing key points in intersectionality, People of color are inherently missing from the dialogue and the essay about a particular trans woman left me reeling, . . but as the book progresses, there is more of us, we are visible, I do think however that so many of these essays are important to the landscape of America's history, The one about Rose Mary Woods is way more truthful than a lot of the country would feel comfortable admitting, This world really has it out for women, We are chewed up and spit out and blamed for the fall of empires, Definitely a must read. .