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4.18 AVERAGE
4.18 AVERAGE
Though these are feminist essays, the range of subject matter is quite broad. Solnit weaves together musings on literature, contemporary feminist movements, comedy, science, and traditional women and gender studies topics. She really inspired me to reflect on more recent feminist movements, and in that way, she succeeds in her role as a historian.
Powerful essay. Worth to say that it is exhausting to read about women's condition. Especially when it is also something we cover in our day job...!
Have read this book after Caroline Criado Perez' 'Invisible Women" which covered most of the data highlighted in this book and more. Different tone and more US centred.
Excellent all the same.
I loved the explanation about the film Giant, at the end.
Have read this book after Caroline Criado Perez' 'Invisible Women" which covered most of the data highlighted in this book and more. Different tone and more US centred.
Excellent all the same.
I loved the explanation about the film Giant, at the end.
informative
reflective
If i haven't read "Mansplaining..." it would be more interesting to me, it gets a bit repetitive but Solnit is still a v good author
This was an incredible read (and a fast one). It lays out all my tangled thoughts on gender and feminism and recent events in such precise but accessible language. It's personal enough to be relatable, and academic enough to be credible.
This is probably going to be a yearly read for me. (It was everything that I hoped Maggie Nelson's "The Argonauts" would be, but that book failed for me.)
This is probably going to be a yearly read for me. (It was everything that I hoped Maggie Nelson's "The Argonauts" would be, but that book failed for me.)
emotional
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
2 1/2 stars. A majority of these essays felt like blog posts, consisting of a litany of recent events and without a clear or compelling shape of thought. I don’t disagree with Solnit’s conclusions, but the way she arrives at them is often disorganized, repetitive (she quotes the same excerpt from her own book, Wanderlust, two times!) and uninteresting. The most successful essay is the short first and title piece about the phenomenon of asking women about their plans to have children. Otherwise, I would skip this.
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault
An interesting collection of essays from a masterful writer. The essays within were clearly not written with this anthology in mind, so there's an at-times tedious self-repetition in terms of acquainting the reader with certain news stories. But she is an excellent and thoughtful writer, so that shouldn't be too much of a deterrent.
The stranger thing, though, is how rapidly this book has become an historical artifact, seemingly trapped in an era long since past, even though it's been only one year. Such is the effect of Donald Trump on what most of us perceived as the arc of history. The optimism that Solnit professes with regards to public discourse around rape is painful to read now.
But it is an interesting and worthwhile artifact of feminism from 2014-2016, when Gamergate and online misogyny had not yet catapulted a white supremacist into the presidency.
The stranger thing, though, is how rapidly this book has become an historical artifact, seemingly trapped in an era long since past, even though it's been only one year. Such is the effect of Donald Trump on what most of us perceived as the arc of history. The optimism that Solnit professes with regards to public discourse around rape is painful to read now.
But it is an interesting and worthwhile artifact of feminism from 2014-2016, when Gamergate and online misogyny had not yet catapulted a white supremacist into the presidency.