A review by documentno_is
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

challenging dark hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

2.75

Illuminating view into Spears' conservatorship but not much more than what has been said in the press, although I'm happy she was given the ability to tell her own story. Spears has had a complicated life and the lack of control and agency has given her a very childlike demeanor in regards to her situation- easy to empathize with but in terms of reading a written version of it it was a bit simple. While I'm happy she seems to have more control over her situation I'm not necessarily convinced I gained any valuable perspective on life from reading this- maybe to be assertive and trust in god? So half of that advice is helpful, I suppose. It is one small piece of a larger puzzle in which men exert power on women currently and historically, through institutionalization and psychiatry ( hysteria, etc.) as part of a larger carceral system where this country imprisons anybody deemed too difficult to deal with. I wish this autobiography had delved more into that topic, especially considering this was certainly ghostwritten.