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A review by lattelibrarian
Keep Marching: How Every Woman Can Take Action and Change Our World by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
4.0
This is probably one of the best "feminist 101" books I've ever read. It focuses beyond just white women and general, everyday (but important!) topics such as rape culture, equal pay, and more. She also discusses intersectionality, how race ties into our experiences of women, and why immigration rights matter. And even when discussing the "typical" feminist topics, she brings in other important means of viewing such dilemmas--for example, instead of stating why the wage gap is an important topic, she includes statistics that involve various races and discusses how such a wage gap also ties into women being viewed as a separate class, and how such financial disparity affects the economy and small businesses and other rippling, domino effects.
Even more interesting to me, however, was her general perspective as a mother. I personally am not a mother, nor do I ever want to be one, so such perspectives are ones that I do not search out or happen upon. So, that being said, such a new viewpoint helped illuminate some new points for me, such as the increasing cost of child care, or immigration rights, or health care.
What I also found very helpful was the engaging and accessible way that she describes these issues. She also offers various ways to make one's voice heard, from contacting our representatives to urging women to run for office, from city council and onwards--not only does she make this sound important, but she makes it sound fun!
Overall, I found this to be a strong book full of valuable insights that I think most anyone would agree with both opinion-wise and fact-wise. I also think that this is a great book for white moms to better understand just why and how we need these discussions today, and why these discussions are still necessary. Definitely worth reading!
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Even more interesting to me, however, was her general perspective as a mother. I personally am not a mother, nor do I ever want to be one, so such perspectives are ones that I do not search out or happen upon. So, that being said, such a new viewpoint helped illuminate some new points for me, such as the increasing cost of child care, or immigration rights, or health care.
What I also found very helpful was the engaging and accessible way that she describes these issues. She also offers various ways to make one's voice heard, from contacting our representatives to urging women to run for office, from city council and onwards--not only does she make this sound important, but she makes it sound fun!
Overall, I found this to be a strong book full of valuable insights that I think most anyone would agree with both opinion-wise and fact-wise. I also think that this is a great book for white moms to better understand just why and how we need these discussions today, and why these discussions are still necessary. Definitely worth reading!
Review cross-listed here!