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Femeia din mine by Britney Spears

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natalie75's review against another edition

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"I became a robot. But not just a robot—a sort of child-robot. I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself."

"In that moment, I made peace with my family—by which I mean that I realized I never wanted to see them again, and I was at peace with that."

I really feel for Britney and wish her the best. Some people should never be parents. 

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This book was my feminist awakening 

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This was a great read. I highly recommend to anyone that’s a fan, or even if you’re not! Brittany tells her personal story regarding her life and conservatorship. I think her story can help others in similar situations in the future. 

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Brittney Spears’s The Woman in Me is her chance to tell her story. As a very young fan when her star was rising, I didn't understand what she was going through in the early 2000s or what her conservatorship meant. Listening to her story, in her own words, brings a perspective to both her experiences and women's treatment within the music industry that we've all been missing for a long time. It is not a perfect book. Some memories don’t seem fully relevant to her reflections and some especially emotional situations seem to literally be indescribable by the author. I think there are also some instances glanced over that may reveal more trauma than the author wants to focus on in this text. But I can tell Spears wrote from the heart and her ability to discuss the horrors she was subjected to should be commended. This is a must-read for anyone thinking of entering the entertainment industry and will probably be a gateway used to move the industry forward to avoid such blatant abuse again in the future. 

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I was excited about the release of this memoire, if a little hesitant because the audiobook isn't narrated by the author (which I tend to prefer). That said, Michelle Williams does an absolutely phenomenal job and, in some ways, sounded more like how I remember Britney Spears than Spears did herself in the opening that she recorded.

I'd learned some of Spears's life through the media and (unauthorized?) biographies that released during the height of her popularity, but this book provides a lot more information and context to her rise to fame, her role in her early choices, and the complicated way her family has seemed both incredibly well-off and incredibly poor. There is so much sadness and heartbreak (and anger) in the book and Spears's life. On the one hand, she is such an incredibly strong person to have endured media bullying, sexism and sexualization, and the paternalism and exploitation of a conservatorship--and to have fought for her freedom throughout it. At the same time, it's clear that there is no magical, pure happy ending for Spears (or, maybe anyone), and it left me wondering how we create a society where people are able to seek care and support in empowering ways, on their terms, rather than in belittling and demeaning ways. This book was also a great reminder of the ways the public has consumed celebrity content and how social media has changed that but also how US culture is inherently misogynist, holds women to explicitly different standards by making a spectacle of their experiences when they deviate from specific norms or expectations, and how many women have and continue to be exploited and traumatized by it. 

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