Pygmalion's Chisel: For Women Who Are Never Good Enough, by Tracy M. Hallstead, examines the enduring critical presence in contemporary Western culture that scrutinizes, critiques, and sizes women down in their daily lives, despite rights gained through the centuries. Pygmalion was the ancient mythical sculptor who believed that all women were essentially flawed. He therefore endeavored to chisel to perfection a statue of a woman he called Galatea. Like the perpetually carved and perfected Galatea, women labor under Western culture's a priori assumption that they are flawed, yet they are...