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Whatever your thoughts on Helen Lewis, this book does an excellent job of showing just how far we've come in the last hundred or so years. It tells the stories of some of the most important struggles feminism has faced, through fascinating accounts of some of the main players: the agitators, the agents of change.

For full review, see Goodreads.

#nonfiction2023 - Just a girl

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#bookspinbingo #roll100 #tbrtarot #offtheshelf2023 #nobuy / #buyless

Ok, so I finished Ship of Destiny at 2am in the morning, a teeny bit before the Bingo board was announced. I'M COUNTING IT AND CROSSING IT OFF 🤣🤣🤣 I may have got pretty much no Bingos last year, but this year will be different.

I'm gonna be a mean, lean, reading machine. One that is neither mean nor lean.

It's a very interesting read. I agreed with many of the author's points, especially when it comes to the expectation of perfection within feminism. The author examines some of the issues that surround controversial figures & looks at several areas including work, love, and sex. 4🌟

Framing things around various rights for which women have had to fight, Difficult Women looks at the history of feminism in the UK and the reality that those who effect change are often “problematic.” None of us is just one thing, including the various women profiled here. I LOVED this.

I had hoped to finish the tagged before the next numbers are drawn, but it isn‘t going to happen, so instead of getting a bingo for January #bookspinbingo, I shall be content with 6 near-bingos. 😆🙄 I can‘t wait to see how my next board shakes out!

A HUGE thanks to @CoveredInRust for my #Jolabokaflod swap gifts! I‘m very excited to read this book and that chocolate looks amazing. Especially since I love coconut. 🥥🥥🥥 Thank you so much for these and for sending them this very long way for me. ☺️

I‘m looking forward to seeing the posts from my recipient and everyone else!

The hard truth.

Wonderful list of the best in 2020; at least the first half! Photo is outside Shibuya Cetral Library, Tokyo.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/14/the-best-books-childrens-poetry-au...

This was part-history, part-memoir. I enjoyed the historical bits, especially since most of my experience with feminism is US-based. But I could have done without the author‘s interjections and criticisms of feminist infighting. It also suffered in comparison to Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez which I read a few months ago and loved.