Writer: Jessica Bennett
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2017
Pages: 295
IBSN-13: 9780241244845
Mark: 7/10
SYNOPSIS
This is a call to arms.
Are you aged zero to infinity? Finished with the
sexist status quo? Ready to kick ass and take names?
Welcome to the Feminist Fight Club. You have lifetime
membership.
Feminist Fight Club provides an
arsenal of weapons for surviving in an unequal world. You will learn how to
fight micro-aggressions, correct unconscious bias, deal with male colleagues
who can't stop 'manterrupting' or 'bro-propriating' your ideas - and how to
lean in without falling the f*ck over.
Every woman needs this book - and they needed it
yesterday.
This is not a drill.
PERSONAL ASSESSMENT
JUSTIFICATION
I have never heard about this book before, but I am in
a time in my life when I am attracted and interested in reading anything about
feminism. Well, last month I went to a bookstore to buy a book in Italian and I
saw this book on the self. Immediately my attention was drawn by those big pink
capital letters, “FEMINIST FIGHT CLUB”. I took it and started to leaf through
the pages and saw that there were a lot of visual resources, letters, drawings…
I started to feel the urge to read it. So I decided to buy it.
PLOT
This book is a funny approach to the sexism in the
workplace and how fight it. It is divided into six different topics talking
about the men, the women, and that, and each section is divided into two parts:
the kind of person (e.g. the mansplainer, the menstruhater…) following by the
“fight moves”, where the author gives us some guidelines or solutions to deal
with every kind of person.
WRITING
STYLE
It is a light writing, not hard to read at all, funny
and amusing. It keeps you hooked in from the very beginning. It is very
entertaining to see that each two or three pages you see a visual resource like
one letter, the ten commandments of vagffirmative action, some drawings like
high power poses, etc. Sometimes it gets a bit condescending, but it has more funny
parts.
GENERAL COMMENT
I have conflicting emotions with this book. On one
hand, I think it is great to have a warning about how to detect the
micro-aggressions, advises on how to treat them, advises on how to be
successful as a woman and stop giving credits to others (as we women have been
taught), stop sabotaging ourselves, stop fight against other women (sorority)
and that. She is doing a great job thus, and I give her the credit, also she
writes in a funny and contemporary language to reach as much people as she can,
she wants that everybody understands her message, so everybody can detect those
micro-aggressions and fight them.
On the other hand, it is a bit “paternalistic”
(maternalistic? does that word even exist?). It treats you like if you were
stupid, like if you cannot see some obvious things or you don’t know how to
react. It treats us like if we were one of those alienated women but really, if
I cannot identify some of those micro-aggressions because I’m not deconstructed
enough, probably I won’t be reading this book. It is something that I feel when
I read some feminist books, they treat you like if you don’t know anything
about it.
But anyway, I think that we all should read this, it
will help us more than be damaged to us.
-Saru.
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