A review by illtakethenightshiftx
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

I have so many thoughts about this book and I feel like I need to reread it immediately! Nelson is brutally honest and unflinchingly candid in her explorations of motherhood as it relates to gender, patriarchy, and society’s conventionally held beliefs about the aforementioned. I will admit that my knowledge of gender and feminist theory is limited, and parts of the book felt hard to access without some kind of prior knowledge about the authors and scholars referenced. (But that’s on me, I own it, and I’m learning from it) I know in my gut that this is a book that I’ll return to many more times in the future.