A review by secanno
Femlandia by Christina Dalcher

Did not finish book. Stopped at 18%.
I found this book and its protagonists difficult to stomach, so I went looking for reviews to see if I should continue reading. From this review it is clear that the book doesn’t get better: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/6269a7f0-8e3c-4703-a2b6-7b554523f39b

Also, it’s possible this changes later in the book, but as far as I can tell, the main characters are all white cis people. The book conflates feminists with misandrists, in a way that is overblown and makes it seem like the norm in feminist movements, rather than an extremist viewpoint held by a select few. And, despite the book’s portrayal of feminism and the patriarchy as two sides of the same unreasonable coin, the author somehow completely ignores the very real, very common power dynamics within feminist movements and how white cis feminism perpetuates racism, ableism, and transphobia. At this point in the book it’s as if Black, Indigenous, and people of color don’t exist, nor do disabled and/or trans/ nonbinary folks. 

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