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A review by gcrunnels
Acts of Service by Lillian Fishman
4.0
4.5/5
In an age of both feminism and photoshop, women’s rights and Instagram algorithms, social justice discourse and plastic surgery, there are a few topics that actually haven’t really been honestly, clear-sightedly discussed. Topics that, despite period destigmatization and #MeToo and eating disorder awareness and better media representation and body positivity and on and on are still actually taboo. Topics that fall under the category of ~The Absolute F*cking Weirdness of Being a Woman and Having a Body and Living in Society~. The cognitive dissonance, the contradictions, the alienation and adoration, the pleasure and shame. What we want, what we’re supposed to want, what people want from us — I feel like this book was uncomfortably honest about the answers to these questions. And it was so refreshing. Dinging half a point because story/character-wise it wasn’t out of this world amazing, but still, entertaining just as a novel.
In an age of both feminism and photoshop, women’s rights and Instagram algorithms, social justice discourse and plastic surgery, there are a few topics that actually haven’t really been honestly, clear-sightedly discussed. Topics that, despite period destigmatization and #MeToo and eating disorder awareness and better media representation and body positivity and on and on are still actually taboo. Topics that fall under the category of ~The Absolute F*cking Weirdness of Being a Woman and Having a Body and Living in Society~. The cognitive dissonance, the contradictions, the alienation and adoration, the pleasure and shame. What we want, what we’re supposed to want, what people want from us — I feel like this book was uncomfortably honest about the answers to these questions. And it was so refreshing. Dinging half a point because story/character-wise it wasn’t out of this world amazing, but still, entertaining just as a novel.