From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. In spite of women's supposedly massive buying power and growing presence in Fortune 500 boardrooms, many women are still awfully old-fashioned when it comes to cash. Why do they show so little interest in managing investments? Or lie to their partners about what something costs? And what's behind that evil prescription known as "retail therapy"? Perle (
When Work Doesn't Work Anymore) investigates these questions and others in this remarkable sociological study-cum-memoir. She boldly exposes her own financial fears (the book opens as she's confronting a divorce and the reality that she and her four-year-old son will have to sleep on a friend's couch), admitting that, despite her years climbing the corporate ladder (in publishing, incidentally), "there's still that other part of me—the one that wants to reserve the option of depending on someone else." Perle also profiles dozens of everyday women, spotlighting the anxiety, embarrassment and guilt money causes them. Commentary from financial experts, sociologists and others helps demonstrate Perle's thesis: women cannot afford to be ambivalent about money and must learn to separate feelings from finance. Perle's book raises more questions than it answers, which is part of its allure—it'll surely have readers thinking twice before they log on to Bloomingdales.com after a bad day at work.
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Early in life, a former publishing executive decided to let her husband handle all the money issues in her life. In a memoir that includes the narratives of many such women, Liz Perle examines the obvious and not-so-obvious reasons for this "voluntary blindness." When her marriage ended unexpectedly, she discovered how little she knew about spending within one's means, investing, evaluating purchase decisions, negotiating pay, and planning for future security. She has an uncommon grasp of the emotional variables that drive the contradiction between women's wanting to be cared for and desiring independence and competency. T.W. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine--
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