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A review by kylieqrada
White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck
5.0
NetGalley provided me with an Advanced Readers Copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
ATTENTION WHITE WOMEN: CONSIDER THIS YOUR ASSIGNED READING FOR 2021. THANK YOU. This book struck home for me on so many levels. The question of feminism is a tricky one for many women, and I myself have struggled with it throughout my life, going from complete ignorance (thanks Christian school) to rejection (ew Mom I'm not a feminist that's against God!) followed by this weird quasi-feministic state of confusion for a while there that I can now identify as a state of peak white feminism. When I finally un-ostriched myself (that's a whole other story in itself) and started to come into my political self, I knew the feminism that I was encountering was different than what I had experienced all my life, but I couldn't quite explicate how. Enter Koa Beck. This beautifully written, engaging, heart-rending, and intensively researched book is THE primer on white feminism and its insidious harm to and exclusion of communities of color and other marginalized genders. Instantly skyrocketing to the top of my All Time Faves list, White Feminism is an essential read for our time, an incisive critique of white feminism's support of systemic failure all the way up through the COVID-19 pandemic.
ATTENTION WHITE WOMEN: CONSIDER THIS YOUR ASSIGNED READING FOR 2021. THANK YOU. This book struck home for me on so many levels. The question of feminism is a tricky one for many women, and I myself have struggled with it throughout my life, going from complete ignorance (thanks Christian school) to rejection (ew Mom I'm not a feminist that's against God!) followed by this weird quasi-feministic state of confusion for a while there that I can now identify as a state of peak white feminism. When I finally un-ostriched myself (that's a whole other story in itself) and started to come into my political self, I knew the feminism that I was encountering was different than what I had experienced all my life, but I couldn't quite explicate how. Enter Koa Beck. This beautifully written, engaging, heart-rending, and intensively researched book is THE primer on white feminism and its insidious harm to and exclusion of communities of color and other marginalized genders. Instantly skyrocketing to the top of my All Time Faves list, White Feminism is an essential read for our time, an incisive critique of white feminism's support of systemic failure all the way up through the COVID-19 pandemic.