In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution

Rating:
Summary: Born just enough too late
Review: This was the most memorable book of my summer reading list. I loved it. Susan Brownmiller has thought carefully and insightfully about feminism's herstory. The little gems she recalls, like the (reluctant) appearance of 'feminist media stars' on particular television shows, grounds the larger story she is trying to tell. These little moments give the grander story that she is trying to tell a richness and an intensity that is unlike most histories (whether they are about feminism or any other movement).
I know that the patterns and shifts that Brownmiller describes could only have been identified and interpreted with the passage of time. Still, I left the book with a sadness because I was born just enough too late to enjoy the heady days of feminism that she recounts in these pages. I am grateful that she left me convinced it was worth continuing to fight in the (vapid) post-feminist age that we are supposed to be living in now. I shall return to her words when I need a refill of feminist energy.

Rating:
Summary: Born just enough too late
Review: This was the most memorable book of my summer reading list. I loved it. Susan Brownmiller has thought carefully and insightfully about feminism's herstory. The little gems she recalls, like the (reluctant) appearance of 'feminist media stars' on particular television shows, grounds the larger story she is trying to tell. These little moments give the grander story that she is trying to tell a richness and an intensity that is unlike most histories (whether they are about feminism or any other movement).
I know that the patterns and shifts that Brownmiller describes could only have been identified and interpreted with the passage of time. Still, I left the book with a sadness because I was born just enough too late to enjoy the heady days of feminism that she recounts in these pages. I am grateful that she left me convinced it was worth continuing to fight in the (vapid) post-feminist age that we are supposed to be living in now. I shall return to her words when I need a refill of feminist energy.