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Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today by Rachel Vorona Cote

May 7, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

I heard about this book a few months ago and I was immediately intrigued. I wanted a thoughtful, interesting, and possibly irreverent commentary on how the rules and regulations of Victorian society (you know- something like the title of the book) still keep us in check today, but what I got instead was a self-indulgent combination of temper tantrum and pity party. The concept is fascinating: using examples from Victorian literature, frame how modern women are still locked into the same constraints. Sounds interesting! Sounds […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History Tagged With: false advertising, misleading, pop feminism, pop sociology, problematic, Rachel Vorona Cote, self-harm, victorian lit

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:43 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History · Tags: false advertising, misleading, pop feminism, pop sociology, problematic, Rachel Vorona Cote, self-harm, victorian lit ·
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