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akalebjian 's review for:
Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace
by Jessica Bennett
I have a lot of smaller critiques of this book but the overarching one I felt was this huge gap between the problems presented and the solutions proposed.
Generally it highlights problems faced by women in the workplace in a well researched, mostly intersectional light. There’s consideration for women of color and plenty of statistics to back up her assertions. On the other hand the solutions Bennet offers come across (sometimes explicitly) as whatever she and her friends came up with over drinks. They clearly lacked an understanding and appreciation for the complexities that women of color and queer women and trans women and working class women face and they didn’t feel like they tried to take it into account.
Overall the book reads like a self help book by I kept having to question if it really would help and ultimately it doesn’t feel like it will for most women.
Generally it highlights problems faced by women in the workplace in a well researched, mostly intersectional light. There’s consideration for women of color and plenty of statistics to back up her assertions. On the other hand the solutions Bennet offers come across (sometimes explicitly) as whatever she and her friends came up with over drinks. They clearly lacked an understanding and appreciation for the complexities that women of color and queer women and trans women and working class women face and they didn’t feel like they tried to take it into account.
Overall the book reads like a self help book by I kept having to question if it really would help and ultimately it doesn’t feel like it will for most women.