Women's Pleasures & Pressures: A man's curious observations
Book Details
Author(s)Jake Awagah Addison
ISBN / ASINB008C2AJRC
ISBN-13978B008C2AJR2
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
"Women’s Pleasures & Pressures" offers great insights into women's 'enjoyables' and 'endurables' in life; their travails and triumphs, tears and trials in society, as well as a jocular take on the peculiarities and uniqueness of the nature of the female gender.
You’re probably wondering, ‘Why would a man write a book with such a title?’ Well, although I’m not a woman, I've observed the lot of women in close quarters all my life in all things that pertain to life.
Women are indispensable in many ways, and go through a lot in life: biologically, culturally and socially—particularly in gender roles and experiences as well as society-assigned roles; as such, we men need to understand and appreciate them.
Of course men too are indispensable in many ways and go through a lot. But this book is not a treatise on gender; neither is it about gender equality arguments. It is simply one man’s applause to, and curiosity about various aspects of womanhood.
To use the indefatigable suffragette, Emmeline Pankhurst's phrase, the woman is "the mother half of the human family."
By women’s very nature, gender, cultural and societal structures, they have a plethora of pleasures and pressures in life—much of which I find caring or cumbersome or curious or all three.
Who else can get pregnant and carry another human being (or human beings) in their body for many months and go through the pains and pangs of child birth? Who else has mammary glands to produce that all important breast milk? Who else experiences blood flow every month for decades? ‘Who else, who else, who else’; the monotonous rhetorical questions could continue for a few more paragraphs yet. But the point is made. However, there is more. More of a different kind.
Wearing make-up (and staining other people’s clothes while greeting them with kisses on the cheeks or hugging them), wearing lipstick and, as a result, painfully labouring to drink tea or coffee or water, and of course messily staining the cup or tumbler in the process, wearing hurting sky-high stilettos but having to keep up the act of wriggling those hips down the street or office corridor with loud decibel steps, wearing fanciful garments that are as difficult to make as threading a needle in the dark.
Oh yes, there are many pleasures and pressures in being a woman.
You’re probably wondering, ‘Why would a man write a book with such a title?’ Well, although I’m not a woman, I've observed the lot of women in close quarters all my life in all things that pertain to life.
Women are indispensable in many ways, and go through a lot in life: biologically, culturally and socially—particularly in gender roles and experiences as well as society-assigned roles; as such, we men need to understand and appreciate them.
Of course men too are indispensable in many ways and go through a lot. But this book is not a treatise on gender; neither is it about gender equality arguments. It is simply one man’s applause to, and curiosity about various aspects of womanhood.
To use the indefatigable suffragette, Emmeline Pankhurst's phrase, the woman is "the mother half of the human family."
By women’s very nature, gender, cultural and societal structures, they have a plethora of pleasures and pressures in life—much of which I find caring or cumbersome or curious or all three.
Who else can get pregnant and carry another human being (or human beings) in their body for many months and go through the pains and pangs of child birth? Who else has mammary glands to produce that all important breast milk? Who else experiences blood flow every month for decades? ‘Who else, who else, who else’; the monotonous rhetorical questions could continue for a few more paragraphs yet. But the point is made. However, there is more. More of a different kind.
Wearing make-up (and staining other people’s clothes while greeting them with kisses on the cheeks or hugging them), wearing lipstick and, as a result, painfully labouring to drink tea or coffee or water, and of course messily staining the cup or tumbler in the process, wearing hurting sky-high stilettos but having to keep up the act of wriggling those hips down the street or office corridor with loud decibel steps, wearing fanciful garments that are as difficult to make as threading a needle in the dark.
Oh yes, there are many pleasures and pressures in being a woman.
