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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
I liked this more once I got over how very 2012 it is. I liked the later essays more than the earlier ones. Maybe it doesn’t feel overly interesting now because a lot of her ideas have become commonplace. Anyway, eh.
informative
reflective
fast-paced
informative
fast-paced
This book has some shining moments - the authors discourse around her connection to Virginia Woolf comes to mind - but I was pretty uncomfortable (and not in an, I'm approached with a new uncomfortable idea and I'm learning, kind of way) with some of her conversations about feminism which frame the violence against women of color as congruent with violence against white women and even at one point suggest that the rape and brutal murder of a woman of color could be "the Emmett Till of feminists" when the rest of that essay pretty heavily references White feminism as the default setting in this conversation especially considering that the only reference to Emmett Till framed his death as this positive thing for African Americans in the fight against racism. There are a lot of worthwhile ideas in this book but I think you'd do better reading Sara Ahmed or Rafia Zakaria.
"... being female was, so to speak, her Achilles' heel."---> Solnit attacks this position.
The essay “Men Explain Things to Me” will have a lasting impact on my life. I will always think of Rebecca Solnit’s story of a man fully explaining her own book at a party when a man starts to explain something to me.
The ideas found in the rest of the essays were less memorable, until the ending of the collection. Solnit is claiming that ideas cannot be erased, they have been let out of their respective bottles. There is a war being waged over gender roles, and Solnit believes it will not be won for a very long time. Even so, I will fight.
Will you join me?
If yes, read this book.
If no, then just know you have been invited.
The ideas found in the rest of the essays were less memorable, until the ending of the collection. Solnit is claiming that ideas cannot be erased, they have been let out of their respective bottles. There is a war being waged over gender roles, and Solnit believes it will not be won for a very long time. Even so, I will fight.
Will you join me?
If yes, read this book.
If no, then just know you have been invited.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
reflective
medium-paced
I don’t get the Solnit hype but maybe just outdated? Seems like a pretty limited (White) scope. The ekphrasis is cool at times
Content Warnings
white feminism
challenging
informative
slow-paced