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gwenbankmann 's review for:
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
by Jia Tolentino
challenging
informative
reflective
this was super interesting, definitely a little dense at times but it challenged my thinking on a lot of things in a way that i really appreciated! in “always be optimizing,” her dissection of the american obsession w/athleisure, barre, and sweetgreen as tokens of our devotion to capitalism blew my mind.
“pure heroines” is essentially an analysis of portrayals of girls and women in literature and reflects on the works of jane austen, simone de beauvoir, elena ferrante, etc. etc. as a devoted elena ferrante fan, tolentino does a brilliant job of picking up on ferrante’s ability to transcend and shatter the idea of a universe where men hold the external power. in ferrante’s work, women set the terms on consciousness and identity in a way that is beyond progressive for her time.
tolentino also reflects on ferrante’s ability to transcend femininity in a way that de beauvoir essentially failed at. i do love simone de beauvoir dearly (if second wave feminism bad…why so good); however, her arguments are perpetually slightly flawed due to the fact that they are arguments by white women for white women! i really like how tolentino dismantled and reapplied de beauvoir’s premises so that they’re more universal to all women
“pure heroines” is essentially an analysis of portrayals of girls and women in literature and reflects on the works of jane austen, simone de beauvoir, elena ferrante, etc. etc. as a devoted elena ferrante fan, tolentino does a brilliant job of picking up on ferrante’s ability to transcend and shatter the idea of a universe where men hold the external power. in ferrante’s work, women set the terms on consciousness and identity in a way that is beyond progressive for her time.
tolentino also reflects on ferrante’s ability to transcend femininity in a way that de beauvoir essentially failed at. i do love simone de beauvoir dearly (if second wave feminism bad…why so good); however, her arguments are perpetually slightly flawed due to the fact that they are arguments by white women for white women! i really like how tolentino dismantled and reapplied de beauvoir’s premises so that they’re more universal to all women