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outcolder's review
3.0
This is mainly of historical interest, and in the meantime probably all of the documents collected here are freely available online. The layout is terrible, with tiny print and then lots of white space. The collection itself is very uneven, and leans heavily towards insurrectionist stuff while ignoring cool anarcho-feminists groups like Mujeres Libres or the Syndikalistische Frauenbund. The articles from the 1970s, which ought to be the most interesting since they are from new left feminists discovering anarchism... are all kind of icky like most new left stuff. There is weird infighting, and no one seems all that comfortable with their own homosexuality, let alone any one else's. There is one bang on, totally awesome piece in here, though, at least in my opinion, and that is the one from Alice Nutter who worked on the Class War newspaper in the '80s. I really feel like AK Press didn't do the work here. I already griped about the layout. I think there was some spell-checking or fact-checking stuff too that seems wrong to me. Also, alongside the introduction, it would have been cooler to have little intros before each piece, explaining the context and giving some relevant biographical facts about the authors. I mean, the point isn't to relive these old debates so much as to meet the sheroes of the past, right? So who were they? Yeah, I am disappointed, but I still liked it enough for 3 stars.
pdxpiney's review
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
Interesting as a smattering of historical essays, although very limited in perspective and largely without context. Deserves a complete update, revision, and expansion to reflect developments since the 1980s.
harperwinz24's review against another edition
slow-paced
2.25
Bit outdated second wave focused unfortunately but good to read for some historical context
etcamila's review
3.0
Algunos ensayos están súper buenos, otros ya están medio obsoletos pero conservan valor histórico.
Es una especie de libro-fanzine que trata de ser diverso, hay info sobre grupos alemanes, bolivianos, gringos, ingleses, de diferentes épocas.
Algunos ensayos están súper útiles para entender el anarco feminismo, cómo se diferencia del feminismo socialista, qué busca y qué no, etc.
Frente a algunos temas se queda corto en el análisis, por ejemplo el grupo aleman habla de cómo ha boicoteado tiendas porno, etc. pero no ahonda en el análisis del porno, o del trabajo sexual.
Creo que un par de estos ensayos proyectados al presente podrían entrar en la categoría TERF, ew.
Es una especie de libro-fanzine que trata de ser diverso, hay info sobre grupos alemanes, bolivianos, gringos, ingleses, de diferentes épocas.
Algunos ensayos están súper útiles para entender el anarco feminismo, cómo se diferencia del feminismo socialista, qué busca y qué no, etc.
Frente a algunos temas se queda corto en el análisis, por ejemplo el grupo aleman habla de cómo ha boicoteado tiendas porno, etc. pero no ahonda en el análisis del porno, o del trabajo sexual.
Creo que un par de estos ensayos proyectados al presente podrían entrar en la categoría TERF, ew.
rhiannatherad's review
2.0
Some of the sections were (understandably) dense and difficult to read through. I particularly liked the sections by Emma Goldman.
eliwray's review against another edition
2.0
What the blurb on the back doesn't make clear is that this anthology was originally a collection of second wave radfem pamphlets from the 1970's, heavy on white feminist theory. By the third edition, a handful of responses have been thrown in to "update" the volume. That's just not enough to push back against an awful transphobic gender essentialist core of the collection. Nor is a fringe mention of intersectionality enough to make our feminism intersectional. These are the largest problems of the anthology. Additionally, the essays lack organization and are only sporadically contextualized.
Quiet Rumors does have some historical value, in preserving some writings of second wave white anarchist feminists and UK anarcha-feminists of an indeterminate time frame (again, inadequately organized and contextualized). There's a few bits by Emma Goldman and Voltairine de Cleyre included, and short snapshots of the specific tactics of some German and Bolivian anarcha-feminist groups. I did learn a few things I didn't know. But it is not a good overview or introduction to anarcha-feminism.
Quiet Rumors does have some historical value, in preserving some writings of second wave white anarchist feminists and UK anarcha-feminists of an indeterminate time frame (again, inadequately organized and contextualized). There's a few bits by Emma Goldman and Voltairine de Cleyre included, and short snapshots of the specific tactics of some German and Bolivian anarcha-feminist groups. I did learn a few things I didn't know. But it is not a good overview or introduction to anarcha-feminism.
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