Amuri E Ascuti Silver

Kimberly Dee Davis Carter was born in Atlanta, Georgia .After doing a summer internship at Clark Atlanta University in 1990 focusing on science and computers. She was sure college was her per-destined path. After graduating from high school, she went on to attend Georgia State University. However, she took a detour and chose to join military so she could travel around the world and continue her college education. She completed her initial military training and headed on her journey. Her journey began in Texas and continues on to Japan, to Korea, Turkey, Italy, Germany, Hawaii and a few other stops in between. She focused on her dreams of completing her college degree and starting a writing career. No matter how much of a challenge life had been, this young woman continued to forge ahead. In December 2003, she completed her bachelor's degree with Saint Leo University. She took 2004 to re-evaluate and turn focus to her writing. In 2005 she went back to school and completed her MBA with American Intercontinental University (AIU). Celebrating life, the author returned back to her Alma Mater, AIU to build on her experiences with a 2nd MBA degree in Information Technology. One of feminism's paradoxes-one that challenges many of its optimistic histories-is how patriarchy remains persistent over time. While Kimberly D. Davis, Amuri e Ascuti recognizes medieval women as historical actors through their familial relationships, it also shows that females have had their limits with the advent of balancing a career and raising children. I had assumed that those limits were religious and political, but Carter shows how a "patriarchal equilibrium" shut women out of economic life as well. Her analysis of woman's priorities production proves that a change in a woman's work does not equate to a change in a working woman's status. Contemporary feminists and historians alike should read Carter's book and think twice when they crack open their next bottle of wine.