Meghan and Martin Break the Rules

Contemporary

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This novel, like the earlier one, Meghan and Beth discover, It’s a Men’s World, the underlying theme that women are people. People who often are not allowed to oversee their own sexuality.

Nature has programmed humans’ life force toward reproduction, although that force can be directed toward many goals, good or bad for society.

Gender expectations can even lead to ignoring the presence of women in the street, in meetings, and in organizational plans.

Cultural definitions are often unconscious, may facilitate, but often interfere with relationships between men and women. These unconscious gender prescriptions show up early in the novel as Meghan and Martin return from their honeymoon and set up their apartment. Gender issues show up at work in sexism. Racism intertwines with sexism in the book.

Meghan and Martin Break the Rules, is Grace Peterson’s second novel. Her novels have been preceded by a lifetime of writing beginning with editorials for her high school paper which she co-edited. During her 55-year career as a professor of psychology, she wrote case history research reports at the Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, which resulted in a life-long interest in the welfare of children. She wrote elementary school curricula for the Minnesota Mathematics and Science Center, Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota. She also has authored many research reports on learning, gambling, environmental attitudes, a statistics chapter, book reviews, and opinion pieces as well as books on learning, child development, and organizational psychology. Along with her husband, Keith, she edited a book on the organization of the Russian Orthodox Church. She has also been acknowledged for her assistance and editing in several books. With her husband she has raised an international family of six children.