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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
it’s 2024 we gotta leave white feminism behind
There were some essays that I liked more than others and when your favorite piece is one of the firsts, it's kind of hard to give it a higher rating.
informative
reflective
fast-paced
Wonderful the way it connects the multifaceted manifestations of gender roles and expectations to personal and societal liberation, imagination and progress. The essay on Virginia Woolf is particularly arresting. Nothing surprising for those familiar with feminism and narratives of privilege, but provides a salient and expansive context for all the well-trodden themes. Starts with a depressing and hopeless tone, and but drags the reader ever forward, the only direction--however slow--one can truly go, thus illuminating the optimistic perspective that at least we cannot successfully return to a more oppressive time.
Interessante Essay-Sammlung, in der viele interessante und wichtige Perspektiven besprochen werden. An der ein oder andere Stelle hätte ich mir etwas mehr gewünscht, trotzdem halte ich das für einen gelungenen Einstieg in den Feminismus und seine Nuancen.
Außerem möchte ich betonen, dass Solnit wunderschön schreibt und sehr viel mit Bilder arbeitet, wodurch auch trockene Statistik zum Genuss werden kann. Die Passage zu Virginia Woolf und Susan Sonntag fand ich besonders gelungen!
Außerem möchte ich betonen, dass Solnit wunderschön schreibt und sehr viel mit Bilder arbeitet, wodurch auch trockene Statistik zum Genuss werden kann. Die Passage zu Virginia Woolf und Susan Sonntag fand ich besonders gelungen!
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
emotional
informative
reflective
fast-paced
informative
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
So bummed not to have the chance to hear Solnit and Jia Tolentino in conversation after reading this.
Also bummed to have to explain feminism and #metoo to the 57-year-old man sitting next to me in a cafe asking about my book.
I really enjoyed these thoughtful and passionate essays on what it means to be a woman in this world; violence; darkness and unknowability and Virginia Woolf. Short and sweet; I’d recommend to anyone who wants to think more critically or thoroughly about feminism.
Also bummed to have to explain feminism and #metoo to the 57-year-old man sitting next to me in a cafe asking about my book.
I really enjoyed these thoughtful and passionate essays on what it means to be a woman in this world; violence; darkness and unknowability and Virginia Woolf. Short and sweet; I’d recommend to anyone who wants to think more critically or thoroughly about feminism.