#FeministOrchestra Book Club Review: I Call Myself a Feminist
This book was the first pick for the Feminist Orchestra BookClub started by Jean on Bookishthoughts on Youtube. It consists of essays from 25 women under 30 on various aspect s of feminism. Interspersed are quotes from other people on the subject, so you really get a lot of different viewpoints throughout this book. I enjoyed reading this book. The essays are quite short and between essays there are a few short quotes, so you can get through a lot of pages in a short time. I found most of the essays interesting and relevant, but there were definitely some I connected to more than others. As for the quotes, there were a few, where I didn’t really see the connection to feminism, but mostly they were quite poignant. The essays tackle a number of different subjects form out-and-out sexism, acid attacks, religion and feminism, rape jokes, why we still need to fight, the underlying sexism in language, how girls are conditioned to care about “beauty” etc. All the es...