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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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And yet, not penetrating

March 4, 2018 by octothorp Leave a Comment

It’s weird rating a book whose viewpoints so closely align with my own so low, but I kind of have to.  It amounts to a lot of glib “can you believe this shit?!” recitation of facts that a) won’t convert any skeptics or b) surprise any believers.  I’d like to think that some of it is due to the times a’changing, but really the main changes in the 15 or so years since the publication date are that gay marriage is legal and that women […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: feministing, Jessica Valenti

octothorp's CBR10 Review No:19 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: feministing, Jessica Valenti ·
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