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Indlæser... Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fightsaf Helen Lewis
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This is one of those rare treasures - a book written by a Gen-Xer that is extremely readable and funny, while treating a serious subject in a serious manner. The author uses Gen-X snark well, without overdoing it, or doing it in a way that would leave other generations cringing or unimpressed. The book deals with a number of difficult women, some of whom were not familiar even to someone who reads a lot of feminist literature. She openly discusses the flaws and blemishes, treating her subjects as human, not cleaning them up into demigods. The only reason this book lost a star was her discussion of the problems males had and her insistence that feminism needed to deal with those. Feminism is not about males, and does not need to deal with any male problems it did not create. Yes, those may be important problems, though her own explication of why the males have problems shows plainly that they are inherent in the culture that surrounds males, and in the attitudes of the males, not in the matrix of feminism. For that reason, we have no obligation to deal with them; they are welcome to form their own movements. Or the MRAs could actually do something for them. Other than that downside, it's an enjoyable and enlightening, well written book. ( ) I like Lewis. Which puts me in a worrisome position online. She cuts against the consensus on Trans-rights and that brings sincere objectors—and a _lot_ of trolls too. I disagree with her position (her actual position, rather than the cartoon demon), but still find her writing engaging and thought-provoking. And funny. She wields a delicious footnote and the beef simmers from the page. The other title for this book was "A History of Feminism in 11 Fights". The fights were..... divorce, the vote, sex, play, work, safety, love, education, time and abortion. Helen did a very good job introducing the historical characters and circumstances behind these fights with a sprinkle of personal stories added too. I had watched the controversial interview that she had with Jordan Peterson where the two locked horns and was intrigued to then read her book. i think they both got off to a bad start and it's a shame as they really had a lot of concerns they could have explored together. Lewis is a good writer and has written for The Atlantic, Guardian and much more. I was sympathetic to her point of view. Maybe she is a bit of a "difficult woman" too! My criticism might be that H.Lewis should have included a #12 fight that would have been with transgender activists who are adversely impacting women's rights (prisons, lesbians, rape and domestic violence shelters, crime statistics, sporting competitions, sex related spaces (washrooms, change rooms etc.) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Well-behaved women don't make history: difficult women do. Helen Lewis argues that feminism's success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Too many of these pioneers have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search for feel-good, inspirational heroines. It's time to reclaim the history of feminism as a history of difficult women. In this book, you'll meet the working-class suffragettes who advocated bombings and arson; the princess who discovered why so many women were having bad sex; the pioneer of the refuge movement who became a men's rights activist; the 'striker in a sari' who terrified Margaret Thatcher; the wronged Victorian wife who definitely wasn't sleeping with the prime minister; and the lesbian politician who outraged the country. Taking the story up to the present with the twenty-first-century campaign for abortion services, Helen Lewis reveals the unvarnished -- and unfinished -- history of women's rights. Drawing on archival research and interviews, Difficult Women is a funny, fearless and sometimes shocking narrative history, which shows why the feminist movement has succeeded -- and what it should do next. The battle is difficult, and we must be difficult too. No library descriptions found. |
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