A review by bgprincipessa
The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back by Gloria Feldt
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 It's also from 2004 and was probably outdated about 5 minutes after it was published, which is sadly even more true for the politics of issues today.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??!!!"
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??!!!"