When I came across a couple such essays in a row, I started to get bored and almost gave up on the book.

And "The Power of the Period" by Amika George was both an ode to that feminine miracle/curse and a plea for feminine hygiene products to be provided all women.Salah satu tulisan di dalam memberikan gambaran yang jelas apa yang bisa saja terjadi ketika anak-anak remaja putri itu dimasukkan ke sekolah ketimbang langsung dinikahkan begitu saja kepada pria yang bersedia membayar mahal.

They had an extreme and quite scary tolerance for pain, and were distracting and beguiling for men ( Tell Him - Jameela Jamil, p. Some of the essays didn't even really seem to be directly about feminism at all, but rather on only tangentially related issues--for example, the reason why the cover of this book is a specific shade of pink. Yet earlier, it also stated that "Most of the amazing women who have contributed to this book probably don't know much more about feminism than you do" ( p.This book is a collection of personal essays written by a multitude of brave, clever, strong, passionate women. But overall, in the end, the ratio of high-quality content to filler was just not enough to satisfy me. Seven hours after your fight with life and death, seven hours after your body breaks open, and bloody, screaming life comes out.

Rating this book is pretty tough because I realized pretty fast that I had made a mistake : I was not the public targeted for that collection of essays on feminism. It is a very intersectional read and included experiences from so many different women and I loved that about it. It starts by never taking for granted how poisonous society can be to the male psyche, and protecting boys from the onslaught of misinformation everywhere" ( p.And I will give the book props for including, among other things, a transwoman, a disabled woman, and many non-white women, including women not from Europe or America. And while there was a nice twenty-ish page essay on the history of feminism, it was the very last essay in the book.

She curated the Sunday Times bestselling Feminists Don't Wear Pink and other lies, which won the National Book Award 2018.I want it to be illegal to discriminate, and legislation to be put in place that makes it pointless to discriminate. As a reader I think the book could have benefitted from more discussion on the education of future generations. I was eager to learn anything new, to hear about things that are generally pushed aside by the media and society as a whole. Now I will just say, I’m not new to reading about feminism, and so that’s probably contributing largely to my disappointment in this book. So…to then come away and criticise the large majority of a book that over 50 women worked towards…honestly it feels like blasphemy.