Summary of Ada Calhoun's Why We Can't Sleep

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Second-wave feminists, who had been fighting for women’s rights starting in the early 1960s, were now raising their daughters to receive the torch and to reach new levels of success.
#2 Halfway through college, Kelly realized she would need a master’s degree to achieve what she wanted in the field of psychology. She would need to get a job and pay off what she owed. She couldn’t.
#3 The author’s mother, Kelly, is a prime example of this. She has never returned to work after having her second child. She’s been out of the world for years, and she doesn’t have any viable connections anymore.
#4 Generation X was raised with the motto Exceed your expectations. We were told that we would accomplish more than our parents did, and that we could be anything we wanted to be. But when we didn’t live up to those expectations, we felt like we were failures.

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Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 04 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669384755
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Ada Calhoun's Why We Can't Sleep
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#1

Second-wave feminists, who had been fighting for women’s rights starting in the early 1960s, were now raising their daughters to receive the torch and to reach new levels of success.

#2

Halfway through college, Kelly realized she would need a master’s degree to achieve what she wanted in the field of psychology. She would need to get a job and pay off what she owed. She couldn’t.

#3

The author’s mother, Kelly, is a prime example of this. She has never returned to work after having her second child. She’s been out of the world for years, and she doesn’t have any viable connections anymore.

#4

Generation X was raised with the motto Exceed your expectations. We were told that we would accomplish more than our parents did, and that we could be anything we wanted to be. But when we didn’t live up to those expectations, we felt like we were failures.

#5

The country was also dealing with stagflation, Watergate, gas station lines, steel mills closing, and President Jimmy Carter wearing a sweater on TV, encouraging austerity.

#6

The threat of nuclear war led to high anxiety in children in the 1980s. MTV launched in 1981, and by the 1990s, Gen X was spending most of its time watching advertising.

#7

The anti-sex ed lessons that Gen X received from the media and schools were from the AIDS crisis and The Starr Report, which detailed President Clinton’s sexual encounters with Monica Lewinsky.

#8

In the 1990s, third-wave feminism filled in some sex-educational gaps for Gen X women. Writers and artists like Susie Bright, Annie Sprinkle, bell hooks, and members of the Riot Grrrl movement offered more interesting approaches to sex in all its risk and promise.

#9

Generation X girls grew up knowing that they were powerful, but they were also aware that they were vulnerable. Meanwhile, Generation X boys and girls learned early on that whatever hurts they suffered, they would have to soothe themselves.

#10

The Challenger disaster happened 25 seconds after the announcer said, Looks like a couple of the solid rocket boosters, uh, blew away from the side of the shuttle, in an explosion.

#11

The Challenger disaster became a source of sick jokes within weeks. We tried to make sense of it on our own, and found ways to pretend we didn’t mind so much.