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3.38 AVERAGE
3.38 AVERAGE
Perhaps some of this is dated, but other parts are not - this is particularly true about the chapter on language as well as the chapters about violence.
It's nice reading this after reading her Shakespeare's Wife. You can see the connections.
It's nice reading this after reading her Shakespeare's Wife. You can see the connections.
adventurous
challenging
hopeful
informative
slow-paced
Mostly quite dated but did make me feel better about leaving my husband!
Some of this is nonsense and a lot of it no longer applies. I understand why this was a big deal, especially for cis heterosexual white women, but we've moved past the need for it now.
I found this book angry and tiresome, full of generalisations and abstract ideas.
Is the world really of men vs women or is it the rules established by patriarchal elites that determined for centuries how genders are assigned their roles?
I was hoping for a manifesto, and what I found was a long rant about men.
Won’t recommend.
Is the world really of men vs women or is it the rules established by patriarchal elites that determined for centuries how genders are assigned their roles?
I was hoping for a manifesto, and what I found was a long rant about men.
Won’t recommend.
Read a whole bunch of feminist theory & history in college and this was among my favorites. My notes from 1994 say, "Interesing and stimulating, though I don't aagree with all her points. I thought her female n-word comparison rubbed me the wrong way throughout.
It is a strange thing that some readers struggle to see a book like this one as voice from a specific time. There were old suffragettes still alive when this book came out, for example. 1970 was a different time and place, kind of. I’m aware that Greer herself now disputes some of her assertions here. It’s pleasing that progress has been made on some issues.
I’d imagine there were a lot of people who didn’t legally bind themselves to someone, share their money or have kids they didn’t want based on this book and the others of its era. Books and words can empower people to live in new ways and it is evident this book played a part in the social and cultural revolution of the 70s.
“It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.”
I’d imagine there were a lot of people who didn’t legally bind themselves to someone, share their money or have kids they didn’t want based on this book and the others of its era. Books and words can empower people to live in new ways and it is evident this book played a part in the social and cultural revolution of the 70s.
“It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.”
Maybe I’ll pick it up when I’m ready to hear it
challenging
slow-paced