A Review of POWERPLAY: What Really Happened at Bendix

A story she has to tell and an experience she has to share, Mary Cunningham, with her co-writer Fran Schumer, candidly delivers her account of “what really happened at Bendix” through a tasteful blend of recollections and assessments. It depicts and lays bare the first-hand experience of the author with the precarious and cutthroat character of corporate politics, overly hyped sexual scandals and persistent media intrusions as the book unfolds her version of the story.

POWERPLAY pilots off as a narrative of the brief but intriguing career of Mary Cunningham with Bendix Corporation. The intricate details of her Catholic family background, exemplary educational performance and extensive intellectual prowess and skills coupled with the events, personalities and circumstances surrounding her entire stay at the billion-dollar corporation, greatl

The book was a poignant depiction of struggles and breaking free from society’s boxes. The reality of her experiences transports the woman’s argument from theory to that of flesh and blood. The relative ease of how the author communicated her feats and defeats is also remarkable, fading softly and subtly into the background, giving way to the gradual development and revelation of the other characters including the issues they each had to face.

POWERPLAY’s feminist significance, as a strategy of defense designed by a woman for corporate women, is not to go unnoticed as a milestone for women’s literature and women’s cause. Its relative ease for reading allows it to penetrate women’s feminist aversion, equipping them with knowledge to recognize and deal with their position of inferiority and abuse. It brings women’s issues closer to home as it addresses the personal as political.

In giving her audience this narrative, this brilliant woman did not merely want t

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