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A review by takemyhand
Women Don't Owe You Pretty: The Small Edition by Florence Given
1.0
“If any part of your identity at all if being squashed, suppressed or erased, they’re not the one for you.”
WOMEN DON’T OWE YOU PRETTY is a collection of small essays regarding different topics of feminism, ranging from race to gender and sexuality, intersectionality being the center of it all. I get why this was a "sensational" book, but, throughout the 200 pages that compose it, I didn't really learn anything; mostly because it was written by a white person and a lot of the reflecting was through that lens. A lot of the ideas I agreed with obviously, but most were just so evident I didn't really understand why it was necessary to put them out in the world that way. But then again, it makes sense for anyone who has a desire to be more educated on social issues to start with the most fundamental of them. Overall, I think this book serves its purpose, it just wasn’t ground-breaking to me.
WOMEN DON’T OWE YOU PRETTY is a collection of small essays regarding different topics of feminism, ranging from race to gender and sexuality, intersectionality being the center of it all. I get why this was a "sensational" book, but, throughout the 200 pages that compose it, I didn't really learn anything; mostly because it was written by a white person and a lot of the reflecting was through that lens. A lot of the ideas I agreed with obviously, but most were just so evident I didn't really understand why it was necessary to put them out in the world that way. But then again, it makes sense for anyone who has a desire to be more educated on social issues to start with the most fundamental of them. Overall, I think this book serves its purpose, it just wasn’t ground-breaking to me.