The Feminist And The Cowboy

Description for THE FEMINIST AND THE COWBOY: AN UNLIKELY LOVE STORY by Alisa Valdes: Feminism was a religion in Alisa Valdes?ÇÖs childhood home. Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem took the place of Barbies and left Valdes impressed with a feminist ideology that guided a prolific writing career?Çöat twenty-two Valdes was named one of the top feminist writers under thirty by the editor of Ms Magazine. Yet despite her professional success, Valdes hit forty-two a single mom and a serial dater of inadequate men in tweed jackets?Çöuntil she met the Cowboy. A conservative rancher, the Cowboy held the traditional views on gender roles that Valdes was raised to reject. Yet as she falls head-over-spurs for him and their relationship finds harmony, she finds the strength, peace, and happiness that comes from embracing her femininity. From their first date the Cowboy makes her pulse race, and she discovers that ?ǣwhen men?Ǫ act like men rather than like emasculated boys, you as a woman wi