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roxyfae's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
willowbiblio's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
medium-paced
5.0
"Too often white feminism lies to itself. It lies about intent and impact; it invests more in protecting whiteness than in protecting women. It's not a harmless lie either; it does direct harm to marginalized communities. Being harmful is a source of power some white feminists have embraced in lieu of actually doing any real work."
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I believe very firmly that any white woman who believes she's a feminist *must* read this book with an open heart and in the spirit of listening and learning. This book was incredible. Kendall addressed such a broad scope of issues that aren't recognized by mainstream feminism as feminist issues, but very much are. Some topics were poverty, hunger, transphobia, economic inequality, and more. She voiced this very real and fair mistrust of white feminists, because of how often marginalized women have been failed by them.
"We" are absolutely fighting different fights, and we shouldn't be. To her point, what does it matter who is in the board room when some women literally do not have enough to eat on a regular basis. Kendall also addressed something I'd never really thought of until now. The women who are interested in elected office or public-facing who are working to dismantle feminism and increase the oppression of marginalized groups are benefitting and able to do that ***because of feminism***.
She also made the (very accurate) point that mainstream feminism often only cares once they are impacted, and don't intervene earlier when it's only marginalized women being harmed An excellent book, I learned so much.
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I believe very firmly that any white woman who believes she's a feminist *must* read this book with an open heart and in the spirit of listening and learning. This book was incredible. Kendall addressed such a broad scope of issues that aren't recognized by mainstream feminism as feminist issues, but very much are. Some topics were poverty, hunger, transphobia, economic inequality, and more. She voiced this very real and fair mistrust of white feminists, because of how often marginalized women have been failed by them.
"We" are absolutely fighting different fights, and we shouldn't be. To her point, what does it matter who is in the board room when some women literally do not have enough to eat on a regular basis. Kendall also addressed something I'd never really thought of until now. The women who are interested in elected office or public-facing who are working to dismantle feminism and increase the oppression of marginalized groups are benefitting and able to do that ***because of feminism***.
She also made the (very accurate) point that mainstream feminism often only cares once they are impacted, and don't intervene earlier when it's only marginalized women being harmed An excellent book, I learned so much.
lostwaterbottle's review against another edition
I really wanted to finish, truly. The writing was just bad and not very engaging. I wish the author used real examples of organizations and activists versus just theorizing and making general claims.
There was definitely good bits but I didn’t have the energy to read through so much fodder to get to them. If someone who knew nothing about intersectional feminism read this they’d get more out of it than I did.
There was definitely good bits but I didn’t have the energy to read through so much fodder to get to them. If someone who knew nothing about intersectional feminism read this they’d get more out of it than I did.
tehanu1990's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0