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Picking this book up after reading another one for a few weeks… let’s see how it is!

This book is heady but super interesting so far !

“That shining silver river” 🤍

Learning about the Cone family is neat. I love Matisse’s sculptures and his early work, The convalescent woman. Holy smokes. That’s a knock out.

I’m into matisse’s sculptures. I’m absolutely in love with one of his early paintings, the convalescent woman. Holy smokes. It’s amazing.

I believe girls take pleasure in watching The Virgin Suicides for its beautiful images, but also because they are beginning to intuit that to come of age is to be surveilled, and to descend a staircase that seems to go on without end”-p.31


Outstanding !!!!

I haven’t read many books on gender studies and sexuality. Her writing style feels like a friendly introduction for me. Philip’s references movies like “A Touch of Evil” and “Sliver,” interesting to mix film studies with gender studies. Sometimes the writing is clunky and I’m not sure what she’s getting at but overall some interesting points are raised every now and again.

This part is kinda slooooow

Masochism allows for refreshment or renewal

“Masochism is not just something morbid, not just an expression of death drive, but a mixture of two opposing wishes, for life and for death, for the gratification of pleasure and the desire to engage with the downside-for example, the need to repeat unpleasant experiences.”p.32

“What the changeability of fashion indicates is that we never want to throw out an image of ourselves that we could possibly return to.” P.11

Super depressing, gritty, funny read so far

Overall it was a pretty good intro to body neutrality. Really enjoying the last chapter on movement.