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All About Evie

Matson Taylor

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1972. Ten years on from the events of The Miseducation of Evie Epworth and Evie is settled in London...

Feminism 1970’s

The Whites, Jews, and Us

Cornel West and Rachel Valinsky

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Why am I writing this book? Because I share Gramsci's anxiety: "The old are dying and the new cannot...

Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays in Books

Oct 20, 2017 (Updated Oct 20, 2017)

Some interesting points but doesn't connect together

Having read many of Rebecca Solnit's works, this is not one of the better ones. While there are some thoughtful ideas, the essays are disjointed from one another, so it seems to be lumped together.

That being said, some of the essays have some important points. This includes marriage equality between same sexes, ensuring inequality from a patriarchal standpoint can be dismantled.

And there is a small amount of intersectionality, discussing the rape of Native American and Indian women as part of a pandemic of violence against women rather than isolated incidents. And while this was written several years before and some of it no longer applies (Dominic Strauss-Kahn) it is still valid as the issues still continue.

The less said about slutwalk, the better.

I would say this is a good introduction to feminism for those who are seeking to understand parts, but I would recommend books with a little more substance than this.

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Joelene Marie (28 KP) rated The Regulars in Books

Oct 1, 2018

The Regulars

Georgia Clark | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry

6.0

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I was SO excited to read this book, it was on a ton of hottest/best books of the summer lists so I figured it just had to be great. Not so much. I was very disappointed when I finally finished it. It started out good enough but as it progressed the characters just got on my nerves. I couldn't relate to any of them and the things they did often made little sense. The constant feminism was annoying and felt like all there was to that particular character, another was flakey to the extreme and while somewhat funny at first it became grating as, again, that's all there was to her character, and the remaining protagonist was just strange. She was perhaps the least flat of the three but I found it impossible to relate or identity with her. The plot was intriguing and unlike anything I've read before but it seemed to be more afterthought than integral. A serious let down :(