Feminist Fight Club, Jessica Bennett
Feminist Fight Club, Jessica Bennett
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Feminist Fight Club
An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace

Author: Jessica Bennett

Narrator: Bahni Turpin, Jessica Bennett

Unabridged: 6 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harper Wave

Published: 09/13/2016

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

Part manual, part manifesto, a humorous yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work—a pocketbook Lean In for the Buzzfeed generation that provides real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation of professional women.It was a fight club—but without the fighting and without the men. Every month, the women would huddle in a friend’s apartment to share sexist job frustrations and trade tips for how best to tackle them. Once upon a time, you might have called them a consciousness-raising group. But the problems of today’s working world are more subtle, less pronounced, harder to identify—and harder to prove—than those of their foremothers. These women weren’t just there to vent. They needed battle tactics. And so the fight club was born. Hard-hitting and entertaining, Feminist Fight Club blends personal stories with research, statistics, and no-bullsh*t expert advice. Bennett offers a new vocabulary for the sexist workplace archetypes women encounter everyday—such as the Manterrupter who talks over female colleagues in meetings or the Himitator who appropriates their ideas—and provides practical hacks for navigating other gender landmines in today’s working world. With Feminist Mad Libs, a Negotiation Cheat Sheet, and fascinating historical research, Feminist Fight Club tackles both the external (sexist) and internal (self-sabotaging) behaviors that plague women in the workplace—as well as the system that perpetuates them.

About Jessica Bennett

Jessica Bennett is an award-winning journalist and critic. She writes for the New York Times, where she covers gender issues, culture, and has a monthly column on millennials and language. A former staff writer at Newsweek, Jessica is also a contributing editor for LeanIn.org, the nonprofit founded by Sheryl Sandberg, where she is the cofounder and curator of the Lean In Collection, an initiative to change how women are portrayed in stock photography. Yes, she's in a real-life feminist fight club.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on October 06, 2016

I am so conflicted right now. I really don’t want to be, but I am kind of hating this book. Not because the content wasn’t good or legitimate, but because whoever designed the physical layout of the thing decided to sprinkle girly fucking glitter dust all over everything. The whole GD book is smothe......more

Goodreads review by Nikki on September 22, 2016

3.5/5 - A humourous and handy guidebook, easy to read but refreshingly no-nonsense approach to the patriarchy & everyday sexism women face. Biggest criticism is - you need to cut down on the genital references!!! Not all women have vaginas!!! Equating women to their parts, even with the intention of......more

Goodreads review by Cat on September 13, 2016

although the repetitive format bored me to death, this book has a lot of useful and interesting information, specially since I'm just entering the work world myself. but it's a shame this is very America centred and it tells again and again that women are people with vaginas, when it doesn't take a......more

Goodreads review by Samantha on June 30, 2016

I think this book is going to get panned in the media. Either that or it will be a big hit. It's very "buzzfeed"; it tries to engage through quizzes and humour and lists. I understand where they're coming from and what they're trying to do. Business books can be dry and they're trying to appeal to t......more

Goodreads review by Jin on February 11, 2021

A friend recommended this to me and I wanted to like it. The problem is the whole book design and the setup. Even though the general theme and the motivation for writing such a book is good, the layout was too childish. The cartoons, various "young" memos and notes made me think that I'm not the rig......more

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