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A Sentimental Education
by Hannah McGregor
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
As a fan of Hannah McGregor's podcasts and various other works, this has been one of my most anticipated books of the year. I'm happy to say that it did not disappoint; McGregor offers nuanced and thoughtful analysis of feminism, podcasting, storytelling, and meaning-making. I love how she combines theory with stories from her own life to create something both unique and incredibly tangled in the feminist texts that came before it.
The essays in this book made me reflect on my own position as someone who grew up as a white girl who loved to read, as well as a queer trans adult who has both gravitated towards and away from academia, depending on how you look at it. Any time I thought McGregor might be oversimplifying or sugarcoating something in this book, she brought it back to a more nuanced approach and ended somewhere much closer to what I would consider the truth. I learned a lot from this book, and I appreciate it so much as a model of what we can do when we both lean into our own stories and recognize the limitations and dangers within that practice. This is a book about making meaning together through a feminist framework, and I would recommend it to anyone and everyone.
Thank you to Netgalley and Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the chance to read and review this ARC.
The essays in this book made me reflect on my own position as someone who grew up as a white girl who loved to read, as well as a queer trans adult who has both gravitated towards and away from academia, depending on how you look at it. Any time I thought McGregor might be oversimplifying or sugarcoating something in this book, she brought it back to a more nuanced approach and ended somewhere much closer to what I would consider the truth. I learned a lot from this book, and I appreciate it so much as a model of what we can do when we both lean into our own stories and recognize the limitations and dangers within that practice. This is a book about making meaning together through a feminist framework, and I would recommend it to anyone and everyone.
Thank you to Netgalley and Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the chance to read and review this ARC.
Moderate: Fatphobia, Misogyny, Racism, Lesbophobia