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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
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last as hell to the party but this is my first radfem book. it was really enlightening and encouraged me to look closer into the way society is structured around sex and gender and how women have forever gotten the shorter end of the stick. also, the last part was an interesting turn where the author pivots to speaking about how adopting an androgynous way of life could be the answer to ending the age-old manner in which women have been discriminated as a sex class.
after previous parts that went into detail the history of the systematic way in which “woman” has been equalled to “lesser”. i knew of most of these methods of dehumanisation, being a woman does that to you, but learning just how rotten to the core the apple is was baffling!
also! the afterword to the book is a spirited defense from the author of her casual writing style which made this such an accessible read in the first place. she goes into how revolutionary words are also subject to the conforming rules and standard of punctuation, typography and the overall “visual” of it all. its a good point and policing someone’s words could be seen as patronising, effectively deciding who’s ideas are heard and who’s aren’t.
in fact, a revolution that i believe is /absolutely/ of equal importance as the female liberation movement - is the anti-design movement. where kerning and line spacing and font sizes are not pored over like they once might have been. we are a lot more liberal with our grammar and its cringe to criticise someone on their verbiage.
come back dworkin!! no one’s gonna stop you from publishing in all lowercase run-on sentences, if anything, they’ll call it chic!
after previous parts that went into detail the history of the systematic way in which “woman” has been equalled to “lesser”. i knew of most of these methods of dehumanisation, being a woman does that to you, but learning just how rotten to the core the apple is was baffling!
also! the afterword to the book is a spirited defense from the author of her casual writing style which made this such an accessible read in the first place. she goes into how revolutionary words are also subject to the conforming rules and standard of punctuation, typography and the overall “visual” of it all. its a good point and policing someone’s words could be seen as patronising, effectively deciding who’s ideas are heard and who’s aren’t.
in fact, a revolution that i believe is /absolutely/ of equal importance as the female liberation movement - is the anti-design movement. where kerning and line spacing and font sizes are not pored over like they once might have been. we are a lot more liberal with our grammar and its cringe to criticise someone on their verbiage.
come back dworkin!! no one’s gonna stop you from publishing in all lowercase run-on sentences, if anything, they’ll call it chic!
it was really educational and thought provoking until chapter 9
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reflective
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fast-paced
Very difficult to read due to the at times triggering graphic content centered around the abuse of women, but nonetheless crucially educational and interesting when it comes to the discussion of Chinese foot binding (that part made me cry) as well as the European witch burnings. Loved the drawing and diagram included within this book.
Dworkin candidly and brutally explores the dichotomy of treatment between women and men under our universally patriarchal system, underscoring the swaths of sexual abuse and torture that women have been unwillingly subjected to at the hands of men. She does so in a very explicit, unforgiving manner that left me at many times with my hand over mouth in revulsion.
Deducted one star because I especially didn’t care for the sentiments on the last chapter about the needlessly taboo topics that she endorsed (???) at that time but as I’ve learned had later on detracted her former statements.. still very offputting so I’ve deducted one star.
Dworkin candidly and brutally explores the dichotomy of treatment between women and men under our universally patriarchal system, underscoring the swaths of sexual abuse and torture that women have been unwillingly subjected to at the hands of men. She does so in a very explicit, unforgiving manner that left me at many times with my hand over mouth in revulsion.
Deducted one star because I especially didn’t care for the sentiments on the last chapter about the needlessly taboo topics that she endorsed (???) at that time but as I’ve learned had later on detracted her former statements.. still very offputting so I’ve deducted one star.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail
The first half of the book is interesting and worth reading. By the time you start reading about the witch trials it already becomes an incoherent, historically dubious rant, but the last chapter is... appalling. Apparently, Dworkin later retracted her own ideas, but seriously, advocating for incest, bestiality and pedophilia??? Maybe my rating is too harsh considering that some parts of the book are valid, but I was ultimately horrified by it.