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Summary: Review by a true Grits
Review: This book was refreshing, comical, and portrayed southern women perfectly.
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Summary: A Different Breed - Southern Girls
Review: To say that Southern women are used to looking at their whole existence rather than simply their jobs to provide confirmation of their success would be an understatement. Southern girls have never needed the confirmation that typcial feminists require to determine the fact of their importance, and most have adjusted to the fact of inequalities better for that reason. Perhaps it's because they had always been conditioned to their place as auxiliary to their spouses rather than the main event, or perhaps they recognized long ago that in a world not ideal, graciousness and privileges in subordinate positions are better than the unfairness of contentious inequality. Strong advocates of women's rights, however, they have always been; they simply don't like to sacrifice their entire lives to get it, and can't quite figure out why women in the north would be willing to do so. The pleasures of being a woman have much more to do with the fact of whether one is happy in the gender role given than whether the CEO title is suitably noticed to elevate women to the equality of men. Quality of life resides in the comforts as well as the relationships cultivated and most women are familiar enough with the concept of slavery to know they do not wish that to be their lifestyle, or any semblance of their lifestyle. Most black minorities feel the same! So activity meant to produce equality that merely places one in a sacrificial position that compromises both the objectives and the quality of life is not seen as effective - southern style, though it may be in northern style. Most southern women are very particular with whom they spend their time, the efforts they make, and the positions they place themselves in to accomplish life goals. Having learned the hard way through years of civil war and its aftermath, they know the meaning of war and that appreciate the damage it can cause. The pride born of southern women lies in the fact that they value themselves and do not require the confirmation of jobs to validate them, preferring to have that done by family and friends who are not so rigidly organized to produce exact results. While they desire freedom more than most, they understand the limits in a world that has suffered discrimination for all of its 400 years and then some. They are intimately familiar with slow change, and the perceptions of acceptance in a world that prefers stability and no change. They can appreciate the high cost of risk associated with rapid change because they come from states where quick change has produced chaos, and they value their lives too much to introduce too much divisiveness. It has required not only patience but enormous amounts of GRIT to make transformations stick in the South by both men and women; it is always persistence and determination that result in those attitudinal changes that create real social change upon which one may build a foundation because of the traditions valued.
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Summary: My husband even liked it!
Review: While I don't agree with everything in this book, I did find it hilarious, entertaining, and down-right fun! My husband and I rarely agree on anything (he doesn't even like to read except Sport's Illustrated and "Guns") but he did read this book and loved it. We also agree on two other books that are fun and, yes, he read them too! "Fried Green Tomatoes" and "Bark of the Dogwood"--two other Southern stand-bys. Also recommended: BARK OF THE DOGWOOD and FRIED GREEN TOMATOES
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Summary: Southern Girls ROCK!
Review: Wonderful book full of Southern wisdom and practicality. If you're not from God's country (the South) and would love to learn more about being a Southern girl, then this is the book for you. Girls raised in the south have impeccable manners and never say bad things about Yankee reviewers...bless your heart. ;-)
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