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A review by marleyreads
On Violence and On Violence Against Women by Jacqueline Rose
[thank you to Faber Faber & NetGalley for the free copy for an honest review!]
I’m not an avid non fiction reader (I read non-fiction, but not that often and I rarely review them because they feel very personal), but the title and content really drew me in, and I really wanted to read it. Jacqueline Rose shows through this book some theories behind violence against women, and on violence in general that goes on throughout the world. The amount of sources that went into this book was amazing, and it made it feel like a really well researched topic.
I think what threw me off was that it was hard to follow along throughout the book on the topics. A lot of the times it felt like the book discussed one aspect, then another, and another, without having a clear red thread between them, and then there had to be some kind of explanation on why these things were important, and, yeah, it really threw me off. The book felt messy, and in the end I didn't really enjoy the reading experience because I felt like I had to try and decode it.
A lot of the points made were interesting, but they just didn’t feel cohesive. I would have loved to see it more organised and simplified.
I’m not an avid non fiction reader (I read non-fiction, but not that often and I rarely review them because they feel very personal), but the title and content really drew me in, and I really wanted to read it. Jacqueline Rose shows through this book some theories behind violence against women, and on violence in general that goes on throughout the world. The amount of sources that went into this book was amazing, and it made it feel like a really well researched topic.
I think what threw me off was that it was hard to follow along throughout the book on the topics. A lot of the times it felt like the book discussed one aspect, then another, and another, without having a clear red thread between them, and then there had to be some kind of explanation on why these things were important, and, yeah, it really threw me off. The book felt messy, and in the end I didn't really enjoy the reading experience because I felt like I had to try and decode it.
A lot of the points made were interesting, but they just didn’t feel cohesive. I would have loved to see it more organised and simplified.