目录

●Unit 1
Families .........................................................Jane Howard
What Is Happiness? ............................................John Ciardi
Unit 2
Femininity ......................................................Susan Brownmiller
The Appeal of the Androgynous Man ...............Amy Gross
Unit 3
Learning to Listen ............................................Eudora Welty
The Fine Art of Complaining ...........................Caroline Rego
Unit 4
The Chase .......................................................Annie Dillard
Bombs Bursting in Air .....................................Beth Johnson
Unit 5
In Defense of Talk Shows .................................Barbara Ehrenreich
Why We Crave Horror Movies ........................Stephen King
Unit 6
I Surf, Therefore I Am .....................................Judith Levine
A Design for Living on the Internet ..................Esther Dyson
Unit 7
Less Is More: A Call for Shorter Work Hours .....Barbara Brandt
What Is the Point of Working? ..........................Lance Morrow
Unit 8
The Portraits of My Parents ............................Maxine Hong Kingston
A Chinaman's Chance: Reflections on the American Dream ........Eric Liu
Unit 9
Of Shopping ....................................................Phyllis Rose
Kill 'Em! Crush 'Em! Eat 'Em Raw! ..................John McMurtry
Unit 10
But What Do You Mean? .................................Deborah Tannen
Pornoviolence ...............................................Tom Wolfe
Unit 11
That Lean and Hungry Look ............................Suzanne Britt
The Ugly Truth About Beauty ...........................Dave Barry
Unit 12
On Self-Respect .............................................Joan Didion
The Medusa and the Snail ...............................Lewis Thomas
Unit 13
The Word Police ............................................Michiko Kakutani
Sexism and Language ......................................Alleen Pace Nilsen
Unit 14
The Broken Chain ............................................M. F. K. Fisher
Arm Wrestling with My Father ..........................Brad Manning
Unit 15
What the Great Books Do ...............................David Denby
The Limits of the Great Books ..........................Mike Rose
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