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alexa_d

I'm not quite done yet, so this isn't a review exactly, but I've decided that my problems with this book come down to this book's subtitle being inaccurate. “The Failed Promise of Gender Equality“ suggests an analysis of how the political/cultural gains of women in the '90s were rolled back/weakened over the next 15 years. But in actuality, a better subtitle would be “The Decade that Was Shittier for Women than You Remember“ #WomensHistoryMonth

alexa_d It's just…*sigh* This book is like 80% godawful quotes from contemporary media commentary on various female public figures, 10% disturbing statistics from the '90s about issues relating to gender and sex, and 10% “basically every '90s product or TV show/movie marketed towards women/girls that you liked was actually ~problematic~!“ (edited) 4y
alexa_d Sure, DON'T talk about how the Supreme Court struck down key provisions of the Violence Against Women Act, but you'd better make sure to tell everyone that “the Spice Girls were weaksauce, watered-down, marketable, palatable 'feminism', actually.“ Like that's news to anyone.
I still don't *hate* it, but there's a much better book to be written using the same basic information.
4y
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