Completed: 10/12/2021
Recommendation: Recommended
Recommended By: Nobody
Review:
I understand, now, why this book is referenced with reverence. It contains amazing insights and accurately reasoned conclusions. It is not all gold, but the mining to retrieve excellent material is trivial. In particular, the argument for the division of labor between men and women which leaves women constrained to the home is, at best, simplistic. It seems that when confronting bias, Tocqueville sort of went with his gut and the concept of women having a constrained life aligned with that gut. It did so to the point of willful ignorance (claiming that women did not toil in the fields when most, if not all, did at least at harvest--surely the slaves he observed included women in the fields). In any case, I benefited highly from the book and will keep in mind some of the insights--particularly those gleaned from the observation of the desire for equality and for freedom.
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