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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
2024 Summer Reading challenge - a book from the 300s
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This is White Feminism 101. I should’ve given up after her ignorant ~veiled woman~ anecdote.
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Excellent book by one of the best essayists writing today.
Not what I expected. Incredibly well thought out and intelligent in what it has to say. And also one of the few feminist books I have read that is truly damning in its assessment of the societies that think feminism and women are worthless. Should be required reading for feminists or anyone studying the movement as a whole.
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Rebecca Solnit is often credited with originating the now-popular term, "mansplaining". I love using that word. It's a funny word. It captures an important social injustice/stupidity.
Anyway, I reeeeally disliked the only other book by Rebecca Solnit that I've read and, alas, beyond the first essay (on the dark hilarity of mansplainery), I really disliked this. Her writing just ain't for me. I find it so humorless (excepting the first essay), so self-important, so indulgent; pop intellectualism of the worst kind. I was also a little leery of her occasional notes about the awful fem injustices in those Other Lands. White privileged lady speaking for poor oppressed Arab ladies... gah. Or even worse: just ALLUDING to it, leaving us to fill the blank with our own stereotyped ideas. Gaaah.
Anyway, I reeeeally disliked the only other book by Rebecca Solnit that I've read and, alas, beyond the first essay (on the dark hilarity of mansplainery), I really disliked this. Her writing just ain't for me. I find it so humorless (excepting the first essay), so self-important, so indulgent; pop intellectualism of the worst kind. I was also a little leery of her occasional notes about the awful fem injustices in those Other Lands. White privileged lady speaking for poor oppressed Arab ladies... gah. Or even worse: just ALLUDING to it, leaving us to fill the blank with our own stereotyped ideas. Gaaah.
Jeder Essay greift sich einen anderen Schwerpunkt heraus, und erläutert an Anekdoten und Beispielen den jeweiligen Sachverhalt. Alle diese Essays passen hervorragend zusammen und sprechen manche Themen an, die sonst gelegentlich in den Hintergrund rücken.
Hier die genauere Rezi:
https://chaosgemisch.blogspot.com/2019/08/wenn-maenner-mir-die-welt-erklaeren.html
Hier die genauere Rezi:
https://chaosgemisch.blogspot.com/2019/08/wenn-maenner-mir-die-welt-erklaeren.html