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lucys_library's review
challenging
informative
fast-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Sexism, and Rape
Moderate: Eating disorder
khat's review against another edition
4.0
Reading as a feminist in 2014, this book is a nice peek at feminism's past.
chelsea_14's review against another edition
I couldn't even finish this book. First and foremost, I had an issue with the writing. Was I the only one who had a hard time following what she was getting at? She couldn't seem to finish an idea? ... I recognize the fact that she wants female empowerment to be in the form of strong women who have a handle on their sexual lives but you cannot deny the fact that rape is very much an issue that occurs all too often. I just felt that what I read of it was poorly written and I didn't personally agree with her opinions...
cbhayes's review against another edition
1.0
This book was vile, an attempt to turn rape into a matter of mutual responsibility between the rapist and the victim. I'm a feminist, but open-minded. I don't mind opposing opinions, but this book disgusted me. I can only speculate that Roiphe has never been victimized herself and/or she has an unfortunately large amount of self-hatred. I don't know whether to feel contempt or pity for her.
kikiandarrowsfishshelf's review against another edition
2.0
Well, she does have some good points about how some people narrowly define feminism. I do think feminism should be able to debate topics.
However, honestly, if you are going to say rape statstics are wrong or inflated, you need to offer more proof than it doesn't seem to happen at the two colleges I went to. You know, rape rarely happened (if ever) at the college I went to, of course it was all women college (and even then a classmate was killed by her live in boyfriend less than year after graduation).
(Plus, Roiphe tells a story of a friend saying she was raped, doesn't this prove the stat?) And why is it okay for a complete stranger to touch a woman's boob or for a male friend to refuse to leave her room?
[a:Camille Paglia|10733|Camille Paglia|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1206674660p2/10733.jpg] is on the somewhat same wave length and is far less insulting.
Still, feminists should read this.
However, honestly, if you are going to say rape statstics are wrong or inflated, you need to offer more proof than it doesn't seem to happen at the two colleges I went to. You know, rape rarely happened (if ever) at the college I went to, of course it was all women college (and even then a classmate was killed by her live in boyfriend less than year after graduation).
(Plus, Roiphe tells a story of a friend saying she was raped, doesn't this prove the stat?) And why is it okay for a complete stranger to touch a woman's boob or for a male friend to refuse to leave her room?
[a:Camille Paglia|10733|Camille Paglia|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1206674660p2/10733.jpg] is on the somewhat same wave length and is far less insulting.
Still, feminists should read this.
megami's review
3.0
While this book may seem overly polemical at the end of the first decade of our new millennium, as someone who was a university graduate during the early 1990s, the complaints in Roiphe's book ring true. While the pendulum swing the other way to 'raunch culture' as the new form of empowerment can be quite sickening, the celebration of victimhood, fear of sex, and the need for so many women to parade themselves as victims to feel they are part of the 'right' crowd was an awful period for feminism.
coffeeandink's review
1.0
Victim-blaming rape apologism. Roiphe argues that date rape doesn't exist/isn't really rape/is all mixed communications, based on the "evidence" that none of her friends have told her about being raped (except for the one that did). Well, no shit. If one of my friends had Roiphe's opinions, I wouldn't tell her about being raped, either.
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