Reviews

The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back by Gloria Feldt

avoryfaucette's review against another edition

3.0

This isn't a bad overview of some of the issues involved with reproductive rights and some of the activist efforts that are taking place. However, I found it a bit slow and dry. It's a lot of preaching to the choir, and gets repetitive. It's definitely geared towards adult activists, not youth or those who need convincing.

bgprincipessa's review

4.0

This book is so thoroughly researched and presents really coherent and well-supported arguments. It's also from 2004 and was probably outdated about 5 minutes after it was published, which is sadly even more true for the politics of issues today. I would love to read an updated version with today's laws and policies included, but again it wouldn't last long.

I wish the book had been organized a bit better. Some of the chapters seemed to jump around a lot, and it did get repetitive. It's also a whole lot of preaching to the choir. Feldt sometimes took an outraged tone that seemed silly considering anyone not on her side is never going to pick this up, but I understand her motivation to light a fire under pro-chicers' butts.

I learned a lot; mostly it made me nudge my husband with a lot of "can you belive x was the law until y years ago??!!!"