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A review by generalalarm
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
4.0
"She knew—it was her job as a teacher of history to know—how many horrors are legitimated in public daylight, against the will of most of the people."
I'm a sucker for dystopian feminist fiction. Red Clocks is a kind of modern take on this, with a disturbingly realistic bent - such that I hardly feel right calling it dystopian. Rather, it feels only a couple election cycles away should things continue in the same direction they've been taking.
As a book it's powerful, though at times fragmented, seen through the eyes of very different women at different parts of their lives, with different wants and needs with regards to their reproductive health. Though I never felt especially invested in the lives of the characters, I overall felt powerfully throughout this book and enjoyed the language and telling of the story, especially the healer, illustrating how women's health has been wrested from the hands of other women and placed within a formalized and overwhelmingly masculine system of medicine.
I'm a sucker for dystopian feminist fiction. Red Clocks is a kind of modern take on this, with a disturbingly realistic bent - such that I hardly feel right calling it dystopian. Rather, it feels only a couple election cycles away should things continue in the same direction they've been taking.
As a book it's powerful, though at times fragmented, seen through the eyes of very different women at different parts of their lives, with different wants and needs with regards to their reproductive health. Though I never felt especially invested in the lives of the characters, I overall felt powerfully throughout this book and enjoyed the language and telling of the story, especially the healer, illustrating how women's health has been wrested from the hands of other women and placed within a formalized and overwhelmingly masculine system of medicine.