Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and other lies): Amazing women on what the F-word means to them

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Tidak pernah bosan rasanya ketika membahas tentang persamaan upah pekerja (equal pay). Tapi, dalam tulisan di buku ini, dijelaskan pula, memangnya mengapa sih kok wanita bisa sampai mendapatkan upah yang tidak sama dengan pria. Padahal jam kerjanya sama, pekerjaan yang dilakukan pun juga sama.

However, from the way periods are described in some of these essays, I started to doubt whether I'd actually ever had a period or if I was just being stabbed by a ghost every month. The British Book Awards: 2019 Books of the Year Shortlists". Publishing Perspectives. 22 March 2019. So this is for people who already identify as feminists" ( A playlists for Feminists in any situation - Akilah Hughes, p. 185)This is frustrating for several reasons. For example, feminists (and women in general) do talk to their sons about sexism - perhaps now more than ever. If mothers (and why only mothers?) just talking to their sons solved sexism, I think we'd be a lot further on than we currently are. Maybe it's about being a woman in her truth, fighting for her cause, her dreams, her vision and doing it exactly as she sees fit." ( Cat Women, Evanna Lynch - p. 28) About once a month, I find myself stretched out on the couch, helpless as my uterus reenacts Game of Thrones' Red Wedding in painstaking detail. I do not enjoy my period. I do not look forward to my period. I could wave goodbye to my period and still feel like a woman. So it's pretty hard for me to write an objective review. I found the book pretty underwhelming, and boring at times. Some essays actually weren't about feminism at all, some were about a very weird conception of feminism. I don't know if I would actually recommand it for young girls that would want to discover feminism, because I'm not sure whether the book actually gives answer at some point. Most (adult) women that wrote in it don't seem to know what feminism is either. The older I get the more I discover the depths, the more I realise sexism is a carefully architected system that might take longer than we think to truly decode; that fact alone makes me aware that I am, at twenty-nine, still a feminist with training wheels." (A Feminist Call to Action - Jordan Hewson, p. 289)

The purpose of this book, I think, was to provide a wider-lens picture of feminism, showing women at all different stages of their feminist journeys. There are women who have only recently become aware of their need for feminism, and there are women who have been attending protests for years. There are women still in high school, and there are women who are well into their forties. They speak in anecdotes, poems, manifestos, lists, and more. My illness also meant that I spent three years of my life lying in my bedroom with nothing much to do except read and Google and knit small animals. So I began to read. I read Virginia Woolf and Gloria Steinem and Caitlin Moran and then realized they were all white women and I might need to start looking a little further. I read Audre Lorde and Roxane Gay and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and slowly but surely I began to understand and think and see. Dua topik itu baru secuplik isi Feminists Don't Wear Pink. Beberapa aktivitas mengkorelasikan perjuangan keadilan gender melalui pengalaman pribadinya sehingga mereka tergerak untuk ikut menyuarakan hal tersebut. Ada pula yang bertutur bagaimana mereka terinspirasi dari kekuatan dan ketangguhan ibu mereka dalam memposisikan peran wanita di masyarakat. In October 2021, it was reported that an anthology television show based on the book and titled Girls Can't Shoot (& Other Lies) will be produced by Mark Gordon Pictures and executive produced by Curtis and Saoirse Ronan. It's true that people do have different experiences and needs under feminism (that's why we have intersectional feminism). It's also true that your experiences as an individual are important.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge shortly after their Prince Louis’ birth. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA this is a wonderful collection for a huge diversity of authors and voices and defiantly a great read for teens that need to understand why feminism is important and what it can mean and what it isn’t (the hate for any and all things male as do many many people believe feminism stands for). All in all, I think this is worth the read if you're unsure about what feminism means to you or if you just want to get more of a grasp on the basics. It was good to see how inclusive it was, but I would still very much recommend reading it with a critical eye (not that you shouldn't always do that). It should be obvious that there are as many stories of birth as there are people in the world. The recounting of one experience doesn’t automatically negate the worth of another, just as criticising another woman (which isn’t what Knightley is doing anyway) doesn’t automatically make you a double agent of the patriarchy.

You need this book. Funny, powerful and personal writing by women, for women, about what the F word means to them. Every woman has a different story to tell. Reading them all in one book might just change your life. I didn’t know I was a feminist until I was fifteen. I didn’t know I was a feminist because I didn’t know I needed to be, and I also didn’t think I would still be allowed to wear make-up if I became one. And I seriously loved make-up. I went to school just like my brothers, my mum had a job just like my dad. Feminism was something that we learned about in history class and didn’t have to worry about any more. Like telegrams or corsets or the plague, feminism was the stuff of suffragettes and burnt bras and fights that had been won and long forgotten.My favourite parts of the book included the Education section and Further reading. I loved the Education section as it provided a comprehensible account of the waves of feminism and groups that had formed and taken action throughout the years. In addition, this book also provided statistics (the advantages of equality in women's education and work) and studies (on the colour pink!) which I loved, as I am interested in data. I'm in no way an expert in feminism and there's still plent The book does feature an essay by a trans woman ( A Brief History of My Womanhood - Charlie Craggs) as well as an essay by a woman born without a womb ( If In Your Mind You Are Born A Girl - Tasha Bishop). However, I question the choice of placing their essays next to those of cis women singing about the intrinsic connection between periods and womanhood, with absolutely no context or analysis. It seems to frame the idea that "periods are solely a female issue" as equal to "periods are a human issue" - which it isn't (both in feminism and in general).