The Feminist Book Tag

This past week the world celebrated International Women's Day! In honor of that I thought it would be fun to do The Feminist  Book Tag. I absolutely identify as a feminist and I cannot wait to talk about both feminism and books! I am not sure who created this tag, but I dicovered it from blogger Liz Whitehouse @ Travel in Retrospect. I definitely recommend checking out how she answers the questions in this tag. Let's get into the tag!

[Book Review] Sex Object by Jessica Valenti

Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the every day to the existential.

Sex Object explores the painful, funny, embarrassing, and sometimes illegal moments that shaped Valenti’s adolescence and young adulthood in New York City, revealing a much shakier inner life than the confident persona she has cultivated as one of the most recognizable feminists of her generation.

In the tradition of writers like Joan Didion and Mary Karr, this literary memoir is sure to shock those already familiar with Valenti’s work and enthrall those who are just finding it.

[Book Review] The Power by Naomi Alderman

In The Power the world is a recognisable place: there's a rich Nigerian kid who lounges around the family pool; a foster girl whose religious parents hide their true nature; a local American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But something vital has changed, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power - they can cause agonising pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world changes utterly.

This extraordinary novel by Naomi Alderman, a Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year and Granta Best of British writer, is not only a gripping story of how the world would change if power was in the hands of women but also exposes, with breath-taking daring, our contemporary world.

[Book Review] Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World edited by Kelly Jensen

4 STARS

This is a collected book of short essays, art, and poetry about different types of feminism and what it means to that specific writer. Some of the writers that I recognized when I picked up this book were writers like Kody Keplinger, Mindy Kaling, Roxanne Gay, Melinda Lo, etc. There are forty four contributors to this collection which I think helped shape and define feminism even more with the different perspectives.