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Eileen is too smart for the third grade, but when she gets a chance to be skipped ahead, she fails the test. The clownish school psychologist tries to gain her trust with an offer of Oreos, but she refuses. After all, he is a stranger and might try to poison her! This is the start of the author's love-hate relationship with the rules as they were laid out for a girl in the 1960s and as they persist in some form today. As she ascends through a physics degree at Yale that dashes her hopes for love and romance, to a post-graduate summer that leaves her "peed on, shot at, and kidnapped," to a marriage of supposed equals in which she is expected to do all the housework, child-rearing, and bill paying and make sure the Roto-Rooter guy arrives on time, Pollack shares with poignant humor the trials of being smart and female in a world in which women are rarely appreciated for both their bodies and their minds. Maybe It's Me is a question all women have asked themselves. But Pollack's message will resonate with readers of all genders as a story of the very human search for connection, love, acceptance, and self-respect. The author of the groundbreaking memoir The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club, Pollack proves that even in her sixties, wiser and more bruised but no less hilarious, she is still very much in the game.

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  • Title Maybe It's Me Essays: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman
  • Author Eileen Pollack
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Delphinium Books
  • ISBN 9781953002075 / 1953002072
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.2 in (21.08 x 13.97 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Jewish women - United States, Essays
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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