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90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality by Allison Yarrow
8 reviews
mouche's review
4.0
Graphic: Eating disorder, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment
flufficorn's review against another edition
4.75
I was fully embarrassed about all of the opinions I was taught to have about femininity and my own gender. This book invited me to question that upbringing. And while I am currently working on deprogramming these things from my brain, it was so interesting to have cultural insight into what seeded those ideas in the people that raised me, in the society I was in as a growing adolescent, and what I carried with me into my young adulthood that only ended up confusing and confounding me. I ended the book feeling like I had run through the gamut of emotions and just been through one hell of a therapy session.
This book really shook me in the best possible way. I was but a child and pre-teen in the 90s. Even if I do remember a lot of the big moments of the 90s, they sort of played in the background because I was so young that I did not understand the implications of them until I was an adult. What I found most interesting about this book is that all these moments that I thought had skated by me; all these social attitudes I thought were beyond my young ken at the time; these were all things that even now as an adult I have internalized. All of them having to do with femininity, sex, and sexuality. And that all means I am going to end up paying for multiple houses for my therapist.
Graphic: Drug use, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, and Gaslighting
onlyonebookshelf's review against another edition
3.5
Moderate: Misogyny and Sexism
carlaah1984's review against another edition
4.0
over the last few years, I have undertaken learning about things that happened during my lifetime but I was too young to understand some of this was repeated information, but worthing support of her thesis. The section about Monica Lewinsky and Marica Clark was a bit long for me, I'm not sure if it's because I listen to the slow-burn podcast about it, but hearing of the sexism and judgment from female reporters was an important piece Yarrow added.
I think the section on Courtney Love was perhaps the most interesting to me, I know here more of the later Hole and Larry Flint era so learning about before that was interesting. The music section with Paula Cole, Meredith Brooks, and Alanis Morissette was something I remembered, and connected with that section was compelling.
The book set up the sexualized nation of being a girl in the late 1990s and setting up the raunch of the early 2000s and I would have kept listening to her talk about that. It really helped me understand why and how being a girl/woman is such an odd concept for me and I struggle to fully understand or embrace it.
I loved Susan Douglas's "Where the girls are", and this book feels like it picks up that material where the book ends in the early 1990's this one marches forward with what it was like to be a female (especially a white female) from that point forward.
Graphic: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Addiction, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Rape and Abortion
hailspork's review
5.0
Moderate: Sexism and Sexual assault
allidone's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide
Minor: Child abuse, Transphobia, and Trafficking
sarahkate22's review
4.0
Graphic: Misogyny and Sexism
Moderate: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Pedophilia