¿Alguna vez te has preguntado qué tendría que decir Andrea Dworkin sobre tu cera brasileña? ¿O lo que Mary Wollstonecraft pensaría de las bodas de ""cuento de hadas"" a las que te invitan con frecuencia? ¿Alguna vez te has preguntado qué consejo te daría Naomi Wolf en tu perfil de Tinder? Usando preguntas y problemas cotidianos como trampolines para explorar las teorías y conceptos de las más grandes teóricas feministas de todos los tiempos, ¿Qué haría De Beauvoir? aborda todos los temas importantes de tu vida a través de una lente feminista. Desde bell hooks hasta Betty Friedan, desde Shulamith Firestone hasta Audre Lorde, permite que las feministas más influyentes de la historia respondan a todas tus preguntas cotidianas, y al hacerlo, arrojen luz incluso sobre las teorías feministas más complejas.
This is a funny interesting because it touches lots of feminsts concepts in a very playful, easygoing, and easy to read way. The informations are not heavy dump on you and there are lots of important discutions had in this one, but i felt in the rabbit hole of not finding any more challengings feminist books again. This is a very good book for any beginner and a must read for young adults and people that don't understand feminism at all.
You have a friend who thinks feminism is just about some rights that we already got since 1950 or something to that misunderstood perception? This is a great book to give them to read because it takes the reader thought many importnant and misunderstood subjects. People so often think feminism is just about this or that and don't realise the full spectrum of subjects and changes the feminists want in fact.
A very interesting book that present you to many thoughts and ideas that carry modern feminism. The topics and questions the book uses are very shallowed described, but I did not expect anything else.
Sadly the constant use of paranteses for both years and long additional descriptions ruined the reading flow for me and disturbed the rythm of the book. Very focues on western feminism even if the authors tried to present some not from the western european school. I would like to see a sequel where feminists from asia and africa are the main and where De Beauvoir is the paranteses.
Un buen libro para adentrarse en el feminismo y plantearte muchas dudas y solucionar muchas otras. Tiene un montón de citas de autoras y activistas y una amplia bibliografía muy útil para animarse a leer a muchas de las mujeres que aparecen citadas en este libro. Psicologas, filólogas, sociólogas, poetas, artistas...
En resumen, me ha gustado mucho. Cumple lo que promete
Lättläst och underhållande med bilder. Boken tar verkligen sikte på vardagliga och praktiska problem utifrån (främst) västerländska feministers teorier och ideologier. Det var givande att läsa om sådant som en själv funderar på var och varannan dag. Notera att boken främst tar sikte på västerländska feminister, varför problem som upplevs av kvinnor i andra delar av världen inte berörs särskilt djupgående.
A.K.A. Historia del feminismo para dummies! Podría verse como un libro de contexto general, pero a mi me pareció que algunos temas se desarrollan casi exclusivamente sobre los peores escenarios, de los que siempre me parece mejor estar bien enterada, pero me faltó análisis de los demás escenarios posibles. Sorry not sorry . Eso sí, la dateada que me pegué con este libro es épica 10/10 :)
A great idea that raises some good questions (an extra star for this), but not entirely well-executed. It introduced me to some historical figures in the feminist movement and facts that I didn't know, though it was not always easy to read. My main criticism is that it can veer on reinforcing simplistic and reinforcing stereotypes (e.g. in the chapter about men being feminists, the summary of "But he doesn't have to quit playing football and swap beer for Prosecco" is surely exactly what this book is trying to quell?) and doesn't adequately address intersectionality throughout the book, keeping it as a section within a chapter. Plus, the book doesn't hesitate to use certain feminists' theories/words to support arguments without disclosure that they are TERFs and have transphobic beliefs, which I don't agree with.
En mycket intressant, välskriven och engagerande bok för nybörjare i vissa feministiska frågor. Problemet för mig var att boken uppenbarligen var avsedd bara för unga heterosexuella kvinnor. Det ger ett fel intryck att hbtq frågor inte gäller feminismen.
I bought this book because the title made me laugh out loud. I enjoyed being reaquainted with a range of feminist theory I hadn't thought about or read for many years, and introduced to some thinkers I didn't know about it. An easy read with clear articulation of key issues facing women today.
This is an interesting read. It applies some of the earliest (and more recent) feminist theories to present-day questions. If you're already familiar with feminist theory and like to brush-up on key players or seminal works, pick up this book. It has a great bibliography. It also calls upon some fascinating studies, court cases, and news articles. However, I have some issues with this title, especially if it's going to readers who are wholly unfamiliar with feminist theory. The authors' version of feminism seems incredibly strict. For example, on sections on homemaking, shaving, and pornography, the authors present arguments completely against these activities, no wiggle room. While this is a completely valid viewpoint, it is not the only one. I would say, if you want to be a homemaker - do it! If you want to be a fetish performer - go for it! And if you don't want to do those things then do something else. Also, the authors mention intersectionality on a few occasions, but they don't really present intersectional arguments or viewpoints. Finally, they mention that men can be feminists too, but the voice in this book is very much geared toward women, almost as though they are using this work to convince women to be feminists without considering that maybe they need to convince men too, or maybe that the reader is already feminist. With that said, don't avoid this title. It's pretty good. But think critically as you read.
Định cố gồng đọc nốt mà thôi quyết định dừng lại. Chả hiểu do đa số sách đọc gần đây phần nhiều là non-fiction nên mình nhanh chán hay gì nhưng quả thật là cách dẫn dắt câu chuyện thiếu hứng thú quá. Cảm giác y như ngồi một lớp học lịch sử với rất nhiều thông tin bổ vào nhưng cách truyền tải của giáo viên thì chán ngắt. Thêm nữa là bản dịch cũng nhiều lúc cồng kềnh và không thoát ý nên nản càng nản.
Review này thuần về trải nghiệm đọc thôi chứ mình không bàn đến các quan điểm trong sách nhé, vì đối với mình thì quan điểm của các nhà hoạt động xã hội nói chung phục vụ mục đích tham khảo và từ đấy tiếp nhận các góc nhìn rồi có cho mình phản biện, suy nghĩ của bản thân thôi.
My dad gave this to me on ... international women's day! Coincidentally, he'd found it the weekend prior on a trip to Melbourne with mum. And him and I are Francophiles. It was a greta book for someone who knew 'sort of' about feminism, but as an engineering student, learnt NOTHING!
Un gran esfuerzo por intercalar referencias cruciales y diversas de los feminismos ligándolas a problemas e inquietudes por los que atravesamos muchas mujeres.
For one thing, it is not philosophy, despite being framed as such. Philosophy provides systems of thinking, in historical relationships with one another, in which received knowledge is challenged.
Think of Nietzsche, who wrote 'the man of knowledge must be able to not only love his enemies but also to hate his friends'.
Authors Tabi Jackson Gee and Freya Rose would focus on his choice of the term 'man', and thus disqualify him, despite his historical context and the realities of his era. He is not engaged with, he is disqualified FOR his philosophizing.
This book is activism, not philosophy.
Activist is a valid role too. It is, however, different. Gee and Rose are happy to pretend they are philosophizing when they summon other philosophers, in short anecdotes and quotes, to support their activist cause.
But citing injustices towards woman from different historical eras, different countries and cultures, as if they all support the same premise - women are still fundamentally oppressed in the wealthy western world of our readers - is to simply ignore the material differences in lived experience.
I also object, morally, to the dishonest framing of the physical book itself. This is nicely modern in format, with appealing graphics and 'key considerations' appearing to frame different sections. But one only need read a few 'key considerations' to realize that they are not the open-ended questions they appear to be.
To whit:
-'If women don't vote, and men hold all the political power, whose interests will the laws serve?' (p. 23)
-'can a wealth white person understand the lived experience of a poor - or wealthy - woman of colour?' (p. 34)
-'what reason might men have for blaming "feminism" as the problem?' (p. 38)
-'am I a bad feminist for letting a man pay for a date?' (p. 43)
So, in my previous life, I was a high school teacher. I would, at times, encounter this sort of question in textbooks and such. I immediately rejected them as 'leading'. Not questions at all. The answer, of course, is implied. Young people smell BS here.
So, again, Gee and Rose are arguing in bad faith. Pretending towards Socratic dialogue. But note that last question, the first in chapter 2, 'Dating and Relationships'.
Now, the subject of scorn for the authors is women who disagree with them.
Jer, that's a logical leap! Slow down, misogynist!
Well, check the 'analysis' of thought at the end of the page with the above question.
"In its crudest terms, if a man pays for all your dates and you, in turn, repay him by having sex with him, this sets up the foundations for a transactional relationship. The man is buying you. This, feminists would argue, is problematic, particularly when set against the backdrop of sex work and how the economics of that operate". (p. 43)
As I review the books I read, I'm starting to consider form and voice, in ways I didn't when I started this project.
So, stylistically, I am writing a 'close reading', rather than the 60 other 'book reviews' I have under my GR belt. I don't need further examples, as it goes on like this for another 100+ pages. This is the best example, right here. More value to be gained from reading this in depth.
Note the number of false premises in the short paragraph I cite.
-it is a form of 'payment' to have sex with someone after they pay for a number of dates -transactional relationships are inherently flawed -a transactional relationship with a man and a woman means the woman is being 'bought' -the readers of this book are women -'feminists would argue' ... $#%@ ... my mind seethes and rages at this statement, the dismissal of not just men, but the legion of women, and feminists, who would do no such thing -'particularly when set against the backdrop of sex work'
Packing this amount of BS into fewer than 100 words is hard to d0.
If that gives you the idea that this is wall to wall BS, than we agree.
The Illustrations are just as patronizing and leading as the 'key considerations'. One has two panels, first a man covers a puddle for a lady with his jacket, second he pushes her into the puddle. The caption reads 'some forms of sexism are more insidious than others'. (p. 30)
Overstatements abound. Motherhood 'holds women back' (p. 92) Femininity is 'entirely constructed by men' (p. 163). 'While women demand freedom, the beauty myth will continue to tighten around them. And you will always feel fat, no matter what you weigh' (p. 166).
Curiously, Richard Reeves and Christina Hoff Sommers, men's rights activists, are quoted here, as if to provide evidence the book is balanced. But they are introduced with just as much brevity and lack of context as the rest of the thinkers quoted here. Sommers argument that the 'wage gap' argument ignores female agency and choice, thus overstating the case, is casually discarded.
I have read Sommers 'The War Against Boys', and she has more research and data in her first few pages than Gee and Rose muster in their entire book. Read my review if you'd like proof that 'What would Beauvoir do?' is propaganda - none or the legion of issues Sommers raised - boys lagging behind girls in myriad metrics at school most prominently - warrant a mention, despite their significance to conversations around gender equality.
I am mad at pretty much everything about this book. Personally. On behalf of men. On behalf of women. For feminists. For even if one accepts the premises of this book, this is clearly not enhancing efforts to achieve said goals.
Lastly though, I am mad on behalf of Simone de Beauvoir, whose name has been co-opted to adorn the cover.
'What would Beavoir do'?
Beauvoir would toss this faux feminism on the fire, set it alite, and give it no further thought.
Авторки книги на основании работ знаменитых феминисток задают актуальные вопросы и пытаются найти на них ответ в источниках. Вопросы разделены на несколько категорий, например, политика, отношения, семейная жизнь, работа, медиа и тело. В числе вопросов можно встретить много неудобных, но в пример приведу лишь несколько безобидных: 🗸Можно ли сделать предложение своему парню? 🗸Почему я получаю меньше, чем он? 🗸Почему мне страшно ходить по улице одной? (Полный список смотреть в карусели)
Текст весьма кратко и сухо дает ответы на основании доступной литературы, лично мне не хватило объема и пространства для рассуждений. Но при этом это кладезь фактов и краткой выжимки всего.
Меня зацепило два момента, давайте порассуждаем: 1️⃣Тест Бекдел - оценка художественного произведения по следующему критерию: в произведении есть хотя бы 2 женщины, наделенные именами, которые разговаривают друг с другом о чем-то, кроме мужчин.
❓Вспомните несколько прочитанных книг, все ли они могут пройти этот тест? Смотря на свое прочитанное, этим больше всего грешит классика.
2️⃣Шопинг как болезнь и способ реализовать себя через имманентность (согласно де Бовуар). На этом моменте я зависла надолго, так как в современном мире у женщин очень много способов себя реализовать и мы это делаем, но шопинг все равно остается формой релаксации для нас. Почему? Так велико влияние рекламы? Поиски дофамина от новизны? ❓Как думаете, почему шопинг не стал переизбытком прошлого после окончания эры домохозяек, а все еще занимает столь важное место в нашей жизни?
По мере прочтения я была скептична к этой книге, но сейчас понимаю, что это важная и достойная литература, к которой можно возвращаться не раз.
Läste första kapitlet och tog en paus från läsandet för att kolla på lite reviews här och insåg att författarna använt sig av transfobisk retorik som jag inte ens såg när jag läste, men märker nu. Är lite kluven om det är dåligt att jag inte vill fortsätta läsa då författarna antagligen är TERFs men känner att med mänskliga rättigheter/kvinnors rättigheter kan man inte kringgå att en grupp som ingår inte är välkommen. I en bok om fucking kvinnor. När jag läste om ett stycke som antagligen handlade om transpersoner märkte jag också ännu mer hur konstigt det var skrivet. Att feminister måste liksom unifieras trots olikheter. Som om de olikheterna inte handlar om viktiga kvinnors liv. Och med den medvetenheten känner inte jag att jag kan fortsätta läsa denna bok, trots att jag hittills hade tyckt om vissa stycken, som är synd. Jag känner bara att det finns bättre böcker om intersektionell feminism som jag inte slösar min tid på. Man kan inte påstå att man står för kvinnors rättigheter och jämställdhet och sen inte stödja transpersoner och andra HBTQ+ personer. Som cis-person utvecklar jag inte min feminism och allyship för transpersoner genom att läsa transfobiskt material. Väldigt synd att författarna valde att ta denna transfobiska profil när denna bok verkligen kunde ha blivit så bra. Var påväg att bli så bra. Så jag har inte läst ut denna trots att det tekniskt står det här!
Pero antes, déjenme platicarles que, irónicamente este libro llego a mí, de manos de mi esposo y es que cuando fue a hacer el súper se lo encontró y me lo compró, pensó que me gustaría. Yo también pensé que me gustaría.
Lo que me gustó
- Edición muy bien cuidada, agradable a la vista.
- Incluye bibliografía, eso demuestra que las autoras se documentaron bien.
- Incluye un índice, perfecto como libro de consulta.
- Incluyen referencias a feministas famosas.
Lo que no me gustó
- Planteamientos tontos.
- Tienden a generalizar a los hombres.
- A cada momento te recuerdan tu papel de víctima para volverte feminista.
- De momento sentí que era una especie de guía de adoctrinamiento.
I found the books sobering. The fact-based writing shows achievements in the fight against gendeR inequality but also serves as a start reminder of the long way ahead.
The book bring together ideas from a wide range of past and current feminists. Authors do their best to be inclusive in both their sampling of featured feminists and understanding that the term "woman" also has variations within it.
I enjoyed to read about the works and theories of feminists of all sorts of backgrounds including those of color. The nerd in me got so many references to read more about the many aspects that collectively make up feminism.
Packed with statistics from around the world and quotes from feminists across history alongside quirky and intriguing illustrations, 'What Would de Beauvoir Do?' manages to be both informative and a light and engaging read. It explains with precision the power dynamics at play when strangers call you 'sweetheart', a male partner pays for every date, your name changes after marriage, and society dictates how the female body should look. In the process, it invites every female reader to perform the ultimate act of defiance - to step out of the cage of the social construct of 'femininity' and become their own person.
El libro que haría “Simon De Beauvoir…?” sirve como un banco de fuentes, estudios y opiniones de feministas contestando preguntas que han sido - para el movimiento.
Me encanto poder leerlo a mi paso, porque siendo mujer y abriendo poco a poco mis ojos al darme cuenta de las ideologías y acciones misóginas utilizadas en contra mía durante mi vida, me enoja profundamente. Ya que me doy cuenta de la profundidad del problema, y a la magnitud que nos afecta.
Es una lectura reflexiva para uno poder poner sus límites y más importante reconocer nuestras propias acciones misóginas y machistas aferradas a la cultura.
Не могу сказать, что книга дает четкие ответы. С одной стороны это правильно. Жизнь каждой настолько своеобразная, что одного ответа и не может быть. С другой стороны книга написана очень просто (иллюстрации мне не понравились…) и правда легко читается, это здорово.
Что мне понравилось в книге? Заставляет подумать (спасибо за наводящие вопросы в конце). Базируется на крупных теоритических работах феминисток (социологов, психологов и тп) - можно собрать список дальнейшего чтения по интересующему вопросу.
Si quieren empezar con libros feministas, lo recomiendo sin duda.
La historia del feminismo desmanusada con palitos, contando desde la revolución, la evolución de los derechos y la explicación de cada tipo de machismo existente
No le doy 5 estrellas porque hay sucesos que siento que pudieron darles más detalle por la relevancia que marcaron, como las sufragistas. Pero en general, es un muy buen libro.
Es contraproducente a su objetivo de divulgar ideas feministas en aras de persuadir mediante la razón. El último capítulo sobre la inseguridad de las mujeres por salir a la calle a causa de la posibilidad de una violación es un fragmento interesante y clarificador en muchos sentidos, pero el resto del libro se queda corto en argumentación y revictimiza a la mujer dentro de la lucha feminista.
A nice summary of the ideas of feminism and historical facts. Useful bibliographical references. However some sections may be too basic and thus I do not recommend it to people with further knowledge on the topic. It's perfect, though, for someone who wants to get to know feminism better and/or understand the problems of our society.