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In the introduction, after talking about trans rights, the overrepresentation of wealthy white women, and anticapitalism, she promotes Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Emma Watson, and Sheryl Sandberg. Despite arguing for coalitions and solidarity in difference, Bryson gives immoderate space to anti-trans fearmongering in chapter 4. There's a school report style that presents information so broad it becomes insubstantial. From the final chapter:
Feminist political methods are similarly diverse, ranging from the very local to the global, from academic research to mass demonstrations, from workplace campaigns to corporate initiatives and from lobbying parliaments to working with asylum seekers. Some feminist groups focus on specific groups of women, such as migrants, while some try to include women from all backgrounds. Some are deliberately non-hierarchical, and some are conventionally organised. Some feminists work in women-only groups, and many work with men in trade unions, political parties or direct-action campaigns.
2.5 L'auteure semble très fan du féminisme américain des années 1970. C'est presque en partie une biographie de Gloria Steinem qui est mentionnée 21 fois. Une autre partie est le récit complet d'intrigues tirées de livres, de séries télévisées, de films, d'articles du HuffPost. Sans surprise, elle ne comprend pas la portée de Black Lives Matter. Elle parle de maquillage, du titre de Ms, de la pression sociétale pour devenir une mère. Elle donne trop de place aux hommes grossiers. Il y a quelques faits intéressants sur les chasses aux sorcières et les sous-chapitres sur le domaine de la médecine étaient les plus forts.
DNF 12% Excruciatingly of another era. Starts from false premises, does not question that man must dominate nature and that progress follows a single inexorable path from hunting communalism to slave-owning states to feudalism to capitalism to socialism. Permanent growth and producing for an anonymous market remain the aim while the summit of development is when the state accumulates the surplus. Among alarming postulations:
However morally indefensible slavery may have been, it did serve for a while to open up the mines and agricultural plantations in large parts of Europe and notably within the Roman Empire.
4.5 On cissexism:
The most common myth used to justify this cissexual privilege is the idea that cissexuals inherit the right to call themselves female or male by virtue of being born into that particular sex. In other words, cissexuals view their gender entitlement as a birthright. This is often a deceitful act, as many (if not most) cissexuals in our society tend to look disparagingly upon societies and cultures that still rely on class or caste systems—where one's occupation, social status, economic disposition, political power, etc., is predetermined based on an accident of birth. So while most Western cissexuals frown upon birth privilege as a means to determine these other forms of social class, they hypocritically embrace it when it comes to gender.
The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies.
The greatest barrier preventing us from fully challenging sexism is the pervasive antifeminine sentiment that runs wild in both the straight and queer communities, targeting people of all genders and sexualities. The only realistic way to address this issue is to work toward empowering femininity itself. We must rightly recognize that feminine expression...facilitates openness, creativity, and honest expression. We must move beyond seeing femininity as helpless and dependent, or merely as masculinity's sidekick, and instead acknowledge that feminine expression exists of its own accord and brings its own rewards to those who naturally gravitate toward it.
4.5 C'est toujours une véritable révélation de trouver des livres antiracistes en français. Néanmoins cet ouvrage suit inévitablement la ligne française et les arguments sont parfois présentés sur la pointe des pieds. Il mentionne par exemple l'idée que c'est blessant d'exclure implicitement les blancs des espaces décoloniaux, même lorsque ces espaces se forment en réaction à l'injustice. Mais dans l'ensemble le livre retentit en rendant visible la blanchité. Thuram parle du Code noir, de l'histoire coloniale et des statistiques françaises trouvables ou non, et c'est là La Pensée blanche est un apport estimable à la théorie critique de la race. J'espère que cet œuvre est juste le début.
