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4.18 AVERAGE
4.18 AVERAGE
reflective
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slow-paced
I suggest reading the essays that intrigue you instead of this book as a whole from cover to cover, it will give a much better impression.
it would have been mindblowing to read this book as a 15 year old facing sexism that other people brushed off. however reading it now was boring. it's really circular, common to find sentences with series of three or more terms listing bad things that can happen to women without ever going in depth.
- women face xyz
- yes i agree, what's next?
i feel like the book should have assumed it is on the same page with the reader and moved forwards instead of trying to convince a skeptic who would never read this in the first place. critique of pornography was rare breath of fresh hair throughout the book.
I liked the essays about stories and indentifying with women characters in stories and how the common literature criticism narrative is we are supposed to feel for the male protagonist.
it would have been mindblowing to read this book as a 15 year old facing sexism that other people brushed off. however reading it now was boring. it's really circular, common to find sentences with series of three or more terms listing bad things that can happen to women without ever going in depth.
- women face xyz
- yes i agree, what's next?
i feel like the book should have assumed it is on the same page with the reader and moved forwards instead of trying to convince a skeptic who would never read this in the first place. critique of pornography was rare breath of fresh hair throughout the book.
I liked the essays about stories and indentifying with women characters in stories and how the common literature criticism narrative is we are supposed to feel for the male protagonist.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Abortion, Sexual harassment
challenging
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challenging
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informative
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medium-paced
Tbh I didn’t learn anything new aside the plot of The Giant movie. Great book tho, but at the end it felt like wasted time. If you’re not well read on the topics of feminism, a must read position, definitely. If you want to read on the topic of silencing women, I suggest Mary beard’s ‘women and power’ instead.
Perhaps I didn’t enjoy this one as much as some because I listened to it on audio, sometimes that happens for me. I found the essays interesting and liked how they looked at feminism from different perspectives, but I didn’t really care about the parts that examined older pieces of culture like books or movies.
challenging
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challenging
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3.5 rounded down
The first half was really interesting and said a lot, but the essays sort of fell apart for me after that mark and showed a lot of weakness in Solnit's ideology, specifically the bioessentialism that contrasts her trans inclusive lip service. I don't doubt she is trans inclusive but it does show she hasn't contended with what that means for her feminism and what it means about cis men if people raised like them can migrate gendered classes etc.. I did love how she spoke about the inaccuracies of language and how this effects feminism, especially with regards to sex work
The first half was really interesting and said a lot, but the essays sort of fell apart for me after that mark and showed a lot of weakness in Solnit's ideology, specifically the bioessentialism that contrasts her trans inclusive lip service. I don't doubt she is trans inclusive but it does show she hasn't contended with what that means for her feminism and what it means about cis men if people raised like them can migrate gendered classes etc.. I did love how she spoke about the inaccuracies of language and how this effects feminism, especially with regards to sex work
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Another phenomenal look at the world from the insightful Rebecca Solnit. "Mother" dives even deeper than "Men Explain" did, and the lengthy essay on silence is a can't-miss.
An exploration of the different ways women are silenced every day over and over again. I loved this.