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onyxburst's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
I think this series of essays are strong. They have given me a lot of information to reflect and have challenged ideas I have not given much thought on before. I think this work is especially good for people looking to get into feminism literature as well as people familiar with the ideas. I think men really could gain so much from reading this. I know I did.
megancoward12's review
3.5
This was written/compiled 10+ years ago, and it is interesting to think about what’s changed since then. I think it started and ended well, but I got a little bored in the middle.
norasteinkopf's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Good, very good. Is felt a bit more disjointed compared to her other books, which is understandable since the essays were mostly published as standalones. I have loved everything this woman writes.
neziiyay's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
fast-paced
3.0
This had a mixture of well written and thoughtful essays about topics we might have already been introduced to, and also essays that felt too surface level and juvenile.
Some of the sweeping statements the author makes about other social movements are simply wrong and overly optimistic. It was interesting that she mentioned queer people so much when she was writing in a time before same sex marriage was even legalised in the US. At some points, I also wasn't comfortable with how she spoke about Middle Eastern women. She pulls stories from around the world, but I do think the essays largely lack intersectional considerations.
Almost a decade later, I think we're having different conversations (or at least we should be). I enjoyed this book thinking about it as a product of a different generation and time.
Some of the sweeping statements the author makes about other social movements are simply wrong and overly optimistic. It was interesting that she mentioned queer people so much when she was writing in a time before same sex marriage was even legalised in the US. At some points, I also wasn't comfortable with how she spoke about Middle Eastern women. She pulls stories from around the world, but I do think the essays largely lack intersectional considerations.
Almost a decade later, I think we're having different conversations (or at least we should be). I enjoyed this book thinking about it as a product of a different generation and time.
fridde82's review against another edition
challenging
funny
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
Ich habe das Buch vor Jahren bereits im Original gelesen, und es jetzt erneut getan, weil ich es geschenkt bekommen.
Einige Themen kann ich heute besser einordnen, und es ist auf jeden Fall wieder ein wertvolle Denkanregung
Einige Themen kann ich heute besser einordnen, und es ist auf jeden Fall wieder ein wertvolle Denkanregung
karinamitc's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Minor: War, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Rape
gadicohen93's review against another edition
4.0
I like Solnit a lot as a person. She exults in the power and exactitude of ambiguity, of aimlessness, just like I do, and her writing style shows it -- it glides, sentence by sentence, thought by thought, her arguments accruing force as they grow. She is very convincing. Her feminism is absolutely gospel. She is passionate, honest, and relatable.
Sometimes the essays felt like speeches, long soliloquies made up of very powerful and powerfully-arranged facts, but it came off like she was standing on a stage with a megaphone shouting at an audience of people as they all nodded their heads.
Sometimes the essays felt like speeches, long soliloquies made up of very powerful and powerfully-arranged facts, but it came off like she was standing on a stage with a megaphone shouting at an audience of people as they all nodded their heads.
alexng's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
tense
slow-paced
3.0