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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
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I had to DNF this one. I knew this woman would quote Hillary Clinton chapters before she did. This is a very white feminist book- at least the first half is. I don't know how one could make it that far on this topic and not consider race, particularly how Black and Brown women labor for white women and other white people. I had high hopes for the topic, and the book is not without merit, but this reads more like a memoir of this woman's singular white, heterosexually married, upper middle class life. There's something in every story that is valuable. Just don't present it as a book on women's emotional labor when it's generally about kinds that mirror your own alone. If anyone has a more intersectional book on this topic, please send the recommendation my way.
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A needed book! I really enjoyed how Hartley explained emotional labor (how it differs from physical labor), and gave plenty of examples. It was an informative book but also told her own story of emotional labor in her partnership with her husband.
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It's actually really good and quite helpful to understand, as a dude, what my wife deals with every day. And it's not as accusatory and vicious as it might seem at first. Definitely worth reading.
The original article made points that resonated with a lot of women. However, the author chose to expand it to book length far more by repeatedly describing her personal situation and -dare I say it- whining, than through research. She barely admits that her own perfectionism is a huge part of her problem. A lot more in-depth interviews with other women who have had, and solved, this problem would have been interesting, and I would have liked to see the author discuss how perhaps /therapy/ might have helped her see compromise as a two way street, rather than compromise being entirely her hisband finally come up to her perfectionist standards, a lot sooner.
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over 1/3rd of this is her talking about how shitty her husband is lmao i’m not mad that i read this but i don’t think i would recommend it as thought-provoking, feminist literature.