Generation Ally. Warum es heute so kompliziert ist, eine Frau zu sein.

Synopsis of Generation Ally. Warum es heute so kompliziert ist, eine Frau zu sein.

«Generation Ally. Warum es heute so kompliziert ist, eine Frau zu sein.» is the essay on audio CD by Katja Kullmann (Eichborn, in German).

The essay portrays the woman in her thirties born between 1965 and 1975: educated, employed and with a career, but caught between the ideal of having it all and workplace reality. Taking the character Ally McBeal as a generational symbol, Kullmann reviews with irony the social pressures, the lifestyle cult and the contradictions of emancipation.

Published in 2002. Katja Kullmann reads her essay in this CD edition; approximate duration: 73 minutes.

For those seeking a critical look at female identity, workplace inequality and the social ideals of the 1965-1975 generation.