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Was shocked how much of this book is how I feel. And I love the ending where it states it can be the same for boys.
I picked the wrong time to read this one. Reading about what young girls are going through right now while watching the election coverage just ratched up my feminist rage to cataclysmic levels. I was so disgusted at one point, I literally slid to the floor from my couch while letting out a sustained note of total despair. A friend witnessing this maneuver remarked that he had never before heard this particular sound come out of me.
Peggy Orenstein covers a lot of critically important ground here - but her biases shine through very clear. And as others have pointed out, her source material is woefully lacking in representation. This book offers a view of the experience of modern girlhood through a very small, very white, very privileged lens. Still, parents and educators, girls and BOYS really need to pick this one up and start having all of those desperately necessary conversations about consent, objectification, safety, and pleasure.
Peggy Orenstein covers a lot of critically important ground here - but her biases shine through very clear. And as others have pointed out, her source material is woefully lacking in representation. This book offers a view of the experience of modern girlhood through a very small, very white, very privileged lens. Still, parents and educators, girls and BOYS really need to pick this one up and start having all of those desperately necessary conversations about consent, objectification, safety, and pleasure.
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This was a really impressive book. I love that it has a plethora of evidence from very respectable sources, and also a lot of information that the author got out of interviews with young women from all over the country and from different backgrounds (although most of them were middle class, and white). I think it's really interesting how much time she spent observing classes, the party scene, and how college students interacted with each other and themselves. I think it was a really good read and would recommend it to anyone looking to educate themselves - including boys/men.
Was a wonderful book but I struggled to get back into it once I’d stopped reading it for a bit
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A very whitewashed and cisgender approach, but some of the information was pretty solid.
3.5 stars. A lot of great points about sex education reform and sexuality in today's society, as well as interesting interviews with young women. However, I wish there was more cited research and a bit less anecdotal evidence and generalizations. Not the perfect book, but covered many topics that I feel need to be reexamined.
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