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A review by lukiut
x+y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender by Eugenia Cheng
5.0
I have to preface this review by urging everyone to pick up this book and read it and by saying that it has become one of my favourite non-fiction books to ever exist on this planet!!!!
Okay, now back to your normally scheduled review...
I started this book as an audiobook ARC, but the format didn't work for me and I'm glad I managed to catch an e-book copy. Can't wait to get my hands on the physical one as soon as possible, so I can adnotate and underline and note the f out of this amazing piece of knowledge.
Although it may surely seem like it, this book is not about feminism, nor how to evolve as a female or any stuff like that. It is about equality, about changing the environment, leaving gendered thinking behind and how to start assessing people based on their abilities rather than their ingrained qualities.
I loved every piece of information in this book, but I think I didn't really enjoy the first half of it so much as a consequence of having read it audibly. The second part, however, turned into me highlighting and taking notes all throughout it, hands why I can not wait to reread it and make the most of it physically.
Besides introducing me to the 2 new terms of ingressive and congressive, the book also provided support for change, with examples of how you can change the environment, rather than the person, so as to suit both ingressive and congressive people.
I don't really know what else I could say, other than that I really recommend this book for absolutely everyone, but mostly for people that currently feel like they aren't going to succeed in life. You can and you will, you just have to change your environment.
Okay, now back to your normally scheduled review...
I started this book as an audiobook ARC, but the format didn't work for me and I'm glad I managed to catch an e-book copy. Can't wait to get my hands on the physical one as soon as possible, so I can adnotate and underline and note the f out of this amazing piece of knowledge.
Although it may surely seem like it, this book is not about feminism, nor how to evolve as a female or any stuff like that. It is about equality, about changing the environment, leaving gendered thinking behind and how to start assessing people based on their abilities rather than their ingrained qualities.
I loved every piece of information in this book, but I think I didn't really enjoy the first half of it so much as a consequence of having read it audibly. The second part, however, turned into me highlighting and taking notes all throughout it, hands why I can not wait to reread it and make the most of it physically.
Besides introducing me to the 2 new terms of ingressive and congressive, the book also provided support for change, with examples of how you can change the environment, rather than the person, so as to suit both ingressive and congressive people.
I don't really know what else I could say, other than that I really recommend this book for absolutely everyone, but mostly for people that currently feel like they aren't going to succeed in life. You can and you will, you just have to change your environment.