elma drayer spoiled princesses
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* About the misconstrued feminism of Dutch women. A Portrait. World rights: De Bezige Bij • non-fiction, current affairs, 192 pages Young girls in general suffer under the “sexual ization of society”. Working mothers lead an unbearably busy life. Day-care centers are bad for children. Islamic headscarves are merely innocent pieces of cloth. Emancipation is above all “the freedom to choose”. And if women had been in charge, the financial crisis would never have happened. Spoiled Princesses unravels these and other myths in which Dutch women believe en masse. How is it possible that today, in 2010, their views are so very different from fellow women in other countries? And why are they so proud of that very fact? Elma Drayer mops the floor with the “feminism” of Dutch women.
elma drayer (b. Drachten, 1957) studied Dutch language and literature at Amsterdam’s Free University. From 1985 on she worked for the weekly Vrij Nederland. In 2001 she began writing columns for the daily newspaper Trouw.
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