A review by melanna
Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward by Gemma Hartley

informative medium-paced

3.0

This is a passion topic for me (emotional labour imbalances in marriages). And I guess if this is the first book you have read on the subject it might be really good. But I felt like she put in very little new content. Most of the book is spent quoting other books and sharing anecdotal stories to show her point. But she doesn’t really give much of anything anything practical mostly just broad statements about how we need to do better. The biggest point was “don’t expect men to do things to your standards.” And that’s not incorrect. But not really enough to carry a book. I think she mostly had an articles worth and then tried to flesh it out with other peoples thoughts and stories. So 2 stars for the writing. 1 bonus one for a topic we need to talk about more and find solutions to.