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Incredibly well researched and gave a feeling of hope for those (almost all of us) who have been impacted and harmed through patriarchy. It speaks to how complicated and personal human nature is.
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I don’t usually write reviews but this book enraged me like no other, after being an absolute chore to get through, it was nothing but full on leftwing propaganda.
Awful excuse for a historical analysis of the origins of patriarchy, it doesn’t even answer its own question, but it constantly shoves “white people bad! Non white people good!” Down ur throat every single page the entire time. It even ends by praising Islam and Arab culture of all things in a book about patriarchy and misogyny, it made a solid attempt at watering down Islam and books like this are exactly why many westerners believe some sort of romanticised, egalitarian version of Islam exists exactly when this could not be further from the truth, books like this do so much harm. I don’t think this author has a clue what she is talking about, frankly, ESPECIALLY when it comes to Islam.
Like most books (and anything else really) written by leftists it is rife with racism, historical revisionism and very few actually reliable sources, and it will tell u time and time again that WHITE PEOPLE ARE BAD AND TO BLAME FOR EVERYTHING!
I grew up in a Muslim family, I am not a Muslim anymore but to read this book and have some bullshit thrown at me about “Islamic feminism” and how u can interpret the Koran in more “feminist” way like the “feminist muslims” this book wants to amplify was a shock but god forbid u criticise a misogynistic ideology in a book about misogyny, while the author will happily go in depth about how omisogynistic the bible and Christianity are. I don’t know what it is about people like this that makes them revise, whitewash and romanticise Islam than to just be honest, they are spreading nothing but awful awful lies that damage not only lives and families but entire regions.
Do not read this book if u want an unbiased source of information, it is insanely skewed to make non white people seem as though they are nothing but the innocent, matriarchal angels and it wasn’t until EVIL EUROPEAN COLONIALISTS arrived and the utopian matriarchies of the global south were KILLED OFF!!!
Leftists cannot write about history without skewing it to fit their own beliefs. Let’s not get into how she was happy to talk A LOT about European colonisation and how much horror that unleashed on the world but let’s just pretend that 1000+ years of Islamic colonisation and the Islamic slave trade that took non Muslim women as sex slaves just did not happen and do not deserve any mention in this book whatsoever, or that it recommends FGM, child marriages and honour based violence. Let’s not even discuss how that predates and outlived the entire period of European colonisation, it’s not like this book wants to tell you the truth.
It even references another book called “Against White Feminism” because that’s what u want from a book about feminism right? To be told that u can be against other women and their feminist needs or ideas so long as its white women’s feminism ur against. It even at one point states: “They offer “vulnerable” white women the promise of protection from what have been described as “violent” foreign men coming from cultures incompatible with their own.” Because it is so very very feminist to erase the violence that mass immigration has brought into Europe, or that the fact sexual violence has skyrocketed along with immigration stats, with data also released that most of the attackers are illegal immigrants. But the words vulnerable and violence being quote marks as though these completely made up accusations and not literally backed up data from several different countries was actually one of the most disgusting things I have ever read in any book anything at all to do with feminism. Once again, white people = bad, non white people = much better, to point that it will entirely erase the suffering of white women in favour of apparently completely non violent totally innocent men arriving in Europe in theirs 1000s on the daily, the same men that come from the Islamic cultures she’s so apprehension to really criticise.
This book is an amalgamation of all that is wrong with the current leftist mindset, this is a reductionist, revisionist, black and white, oppressor vs oppressed, rewriting of history that is full of hatred, racism and even more misogyny than it claims to be criticising. DO NO READ THIS BOOK, it is offensive to even class this as feminist literature.
Awful excuse for a historical analysis of the origins of patriarchy, it doesn’t even answer its own question, but it constantly shoves “white people bad! Non white people good!” Down ur throat every single page the entire time. It even ends by praising Islam and Arab culture of all things in a book about patriarchy and misogyny, it made a solid attempt at watering down Islam and books like this are exactly why many westerners believe some sort of romanticised, egalitarian version of Islam exists exactly when this could not be further from the truth, books like this do so much harm. I don’t think this author has a clue what she is talking about, frankly, ESPECIALLY when it comes to Islam.
Like most books (and anything else really) written by leftists it is rife with racism, historical revisionism and very few actually reliable sources, and it will tell u time and time again that WHITE PEOPLE ARE BAD AND TO BLAME FOR EVERYTHING!
I grew up in a Muslim family, I am not a Muslim anymore but to read this book and have some bullshit thrown at me about “Islamic feminism” and how u can interpret the Koran in more “feminist” way like the “feminist muslims” this book wants to amplify was a shock but god forbid u criticise a misogynistic ideology in a book about misogyny, while the author will happily go in depth about how omisogynistic the bible and Christianity are. I don’t know what it is about people like this that makes them revise, whitewash and romanticise Islam than to just be honest, they are spreading nothing but awful awful lies that damage not only lives and families but entire regions.
Do not read this book if u want an unbiased source of information, it is insanely skewed to make non white people seem as though they are nothing but the innocent, matriarchal angels and it wasn’t until EVIL EUROPEAN COLONIALISTS arrived and the utopian matriarchies of the global south were KILLED OFF!!!
Leftists cannot write about history without skewing it to fit their own beliefs. Let’s not get into how she was happy to talk A LOT about European colonisation and how much horror that unleashed on the world but let’s just pretend that 1000+ years of Islamic colonisation and the Islamic slave trade that took non Muslim women as sex slaves just did not happen and do not deserve any mention in this book whatsoever, or that it recommends FGM, child marriages and honour based violence. Let’s not even discuss how that predates and outlived the entire period of European colonisation, it’s not like this book wants to tell you the truth.
It even references another book called “Against White Feminism” because that’s what u want from a book about feminism right? To be told that u can be against other women and their feminist needs or ideas so long as its white women’s feminism ur against. It even at one point states: “They offer “vulnerable” white women the promise of protection from what have been described as “violent” foreign men coming from cultures incompatible with their own.” Because it is so very very feminist to erase the violence that mass immigration has brought into Europe, or that the fact sexual violence has skyrocketed along with immigration stats, with data also released that most of the attackers are illegal immigrants. But the words vulnerable and violence being quote marks as though these completely made up accusations and not literally backed up data from several different countries was actually one of the most disgusting things I have ever read in any book anything at all to do with feminism. Once again, white people = bad, non white people = much better, to point that it will entirely erase the suffering of white women in favour of apparently completely non violent totally innocent men arriving in Europe in theirs 1000s on the daily, the same men that come from the Islamic cultures she’s so apprehension to really criticise.
This book is an amalgamation of all that is wrong with the current leftist mindset, this is a reductionist, revisionist, black and white, oppressor vs oppressed, rewriting of history that is full of hatred, racism and even more misogyny than it claims to be criticising. DO NO READ THIS BOOK, it is offensive to even class this as feminist literature.
A question I have asked myself many times, and have spent a fair amount of time seeking a reliable source to learn from. This book offers that. I am so pleased it exists!
This book taught me so much, and incited a lot of questions and thoughts.
I did not expect to learn so much about archaeology, nor spend so much time thinking about the notion of "fact" versus personal, educated guesses, often shrouded in cultural biases, of those people we deem experts in a certain field (such as archaeology, history, sociology). The key is to question not only what is being said, but why that perspective might be given prominence, at that point in time.
I learned about human history - populations, ancestry, cultures, politics, social hierarchies and revolutions. Most unexpected, I learned about the politics of nationhood. How the need to grow populations and maintain loyalty can so heavily weigh on the rules and norms of the day - and how easily this can change based on the needs of the nation.
Gender stereotypes and traditions and how these play out in realms of power is a complex thing, and this book does a great job of teething out the issues and various ways, while not attempting to tie it all up in a neat little bow.
I cannot recommend this book enough.
The best information is thought provoking and inspiring, and as I close this book, I have a list of 15 others (referenced in this book) to seek out.
This book taught me so much, and incited a lot of questions and thoughts.
I did not expect to learn so much about archaeology, nor spend so much time thinking about the notion of "fact" versus personal, educated guesses, often shrouded in cultural biases, of those people we deem experts in a certain field (such as archaeology, history, sociology). The key is to question not only what is being said, but why that perspective might be given prominence, at that point in time.
I learned about human history - populations, ancestry, cultures, politics, social hierarchies and revolutions. Most unexpected, I learned about the politics of nationhood. How the need to grow populations and maintain loyalty can so heavily weigh on the rules and norms of the day - and how easily this can change based on the needs of the nation.
Gender stereotypes and traditions and how these play out in realms of power is a complex thing, and this book does a great job of teething out the issues and various ways, while not attempting to tie it all up in a neat little bow.
I cannot recommend this book enough.
The best information is thought provoking and inspiring, and as I close this book, I have a list of 15 others (referenced in this book) to seek out.
challenging
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
non-fiction, feminist literature, analytical discourse based on history/sociology/anthropology/science, critique of societal and cultural structures, exploring historical power dynamics
medium-paced