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A review by temwani_alexandra
On Violence and on Violence Against Women by Jacqueline Rose
challenging
dark
slow-paced
2.0
I am a firm believer that a book no matter the genre or the intent has to be somewhat enjoyable or entertaining. This rule holds true for academic texts as well. As much as I enjoy learning about the violent ways the world fucks women over I do not enjoy reading it through stuff and wooden language.
The topic itself isn’t niche and lends itself to being very much accessible and within the cultural zeitgeist; however something about this book felt gatekeepy without being explicitly so. There certain books and authors you have to have read it seems extensively to even know what she’s going on about for vast swathes of the book. I don’t like this if you’re writing about a topic that is this pertinent to modern day and you want it to reach and affect the masses why write like this??
Personally it’s was mostly a flop except for the part about Oscar Pistorious which was interesting because I remember living through that cultural moment. Everything else was blah blah blah, sorry.
The topic itself isn’t niche and lends itself to being very much accessible and within the cultural zeitgeist; however something about this book felt gatekeepy without being explicitly so. There certain books and authors you have to have read it seems extensively to even know what she’s going on about for vast swathes of the book. I don’t like this if you’re writing about a topic that is this pertinent to modern day and you want it to reach and affect the masses why write like this??
Personally it’s was mostly a flop except for the part about Oscar Pistorious which was interesting because I remember living through that cultural moment. Everything else was blah blah blah, sorry.