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A review by nelesnotes
Vom Hintern: Die Geschichte einer Rundung by Heather Radke
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.75
I definitely found this informative, did not expect to learn this much about racism in a book about butts, but it makes sense!
Unfortunately I found it a bit dry and boring in writing, so it took me pretty long to get through it. Still would recommend because of the valuable lessons it contains!
Addition: I thought about it a little longer and I agree with a review I read, that said that it felt a bit bodyshaming towards skinny people. At least in the chapter about Kim Kardashian, I would have expected a mention about how that also puts pressure on people with a small butt, to look like that and how harmful that can be in terms of unhealthy gym promises or plastic surgery. On the other hand I can totally understand, that skinny people where the ones that profited throughout history and that it's important, to tell the side of the story from people, who got opressed and mistreated for centuries. Still the women of today, who are naturally skinny (and might be reading this book) are not the ones to blame for history and here and there it felt a bit like that in this book. I suppose it just wasn't super clear for me at the beginning, what the purpose of and for who this book was written.
Unfortunately I found it a bit dry and boring in writing, so it took me pretty long to get through it. Still would recommend because of the valuable lessons it contains!
Addition: I thought about it a little longer and I agree with a review I read, that said that it felt a bit bodyshaming towards skinny people. At least in the chapter about Kim Kardashian, I would have expected a mention about how that also puts pressure on people with a small butt, to look like that and how harmful that can be in terms of unhealthy gym promises or plastic surgery. On the other hand I can totally understand, that skinny people where the ones that profited throughout history and that it's important, to tell the side of the story from people, who got opressed and mistreated for centuries. Still the women of today, who are naturally skinny (and might be reading this book) are not the ones to blame for history and here and there it felt a bit like that in this book. I suppose it just wasn't super clear for me at the beginning, what the purpose of and for who this book was written.