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The Geek Feminist Revolution
by Kameron Hurley
If you have read other feminist pop culture texts, such as Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, there won't be a lot here that is surprising to you. Many of Hurley's essays explain why women deserve their voices to be heard, how to fight oppression in the digital age, and how she applies feminism to her own writing. There are a few personal essays about her growth and development as an author, a handful of pop culture analyses, and some essays about feminist issues online over the past couple of years.
I'm not a feminist scholar, but I'm pretty well versed in the feminist issues Hurley covers, such as the Sad Puppy takeover of the Hugo nominations and Gamergate. While I agreed a lot with what Hurley expressed, there wasn't a lot here for me that was new or thought-provoking. Unfortunately, I feel like a lot of people picking up this book will be like me. In that case, a lot of these essays are preaching to the choir.
That all being said, this would be a great text for those interested in geeky feminism who haven't read anything like it before. If you aren't sure if/why feminism is important in the year 2016, this book would be a great educational resource.
I'm not a feminist scholar, but I'm pretty well versed in the feminist issues Hurley covers, such as the Sad Puppy takeover of the Hugo nominations and Gamergate. While I agreed a lot with what Hurley expressed, there wasn't a lot here for me that was new or thought-provoking. Unfortunately, I feel like a lot of people picking up this book will be like me. In that case, a lot of these essays are preaching to the choir.
That all being said, this would be a great text for those interested in geeky feminism who haven't read anything like it before. If you aren't sure if/why feminism is important in the year 2016, this book would be a great educational resource.