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A review by veecaswell
The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing by Hannah Dawson
5.0
I was fortunate to get an ARC of this book via NetGalley, and wondered how reflective of feminism this was going to be, and I was pleased that so many different perspectives were included in this book giving me the reader a broad base of perspectives that is so important.
The breadth of writers, speechmakers and poets collected in this book is incredibly diverse and makes it such an ideal primer for feminism that you can take from and take in throughout and going back into history including important women including Sojourner Truth's 'Ain't I A Woman' speech, including the work of Barrett Browning and Kishida Toshiko's 'Girls In Boxes' speech which has stayed with me since I read it in this collection.
Covering topics including fatphobia thanks to the work of Susie Orbach, Jewish feminism thanks to the writing of Judith Plaskow and Prison Abolitionism thanks to the work of Angela Davis, this book an incredible variety of feminist perspectives with each new piece connecting beautifully to the next and making it a book that I found incredibly compelling from beginning to end - the book never feeling too much considering it's size thanks to poetry and short pieces that never stop being interesting.
I really appreciated this book and am certainly going to do so much more reading from the writers collected in this book as I feel this is an excellent place to start if you're just beginning to get some insight into feminism.
(I received an ARC from Netgalley for honest review).
The breadth of writers, speechmakers and poets collected in this book is incredibly diverse and makes it such an ideal primer for feminism that you can take from and take in throughout and going back into history including important women including Sojourner Truth's 'Ain't I A Woman' speech, including the work of Barrett Browning and Kishida Toshiko's 'Girls In Boxes' speech which has stayed with me since I read it in this collection.
Covering topics including fatphobia thanks to the work of Susie Orbach, Jewish feminism thanks to the writing of Judith Plaskow and Prison Abolitionism thanks to the work of Angela Davis, this book an incredible variety of feminist perspectives with each new piece connecting beautifully to the next and making it a book that I found incredibly compelling from beginning to end - the book never feeling too much considering it's size thanks to poetry and short pieces that never stop being interesting.
I really appreciated this book and am certainly going to do so much more reading from the writers collected in this book as I feel this is an excellent place to start if you're just beginning to get some insight into feminism.
(I received an ARC from Netgalley for honest review).