Authors Mona Eltahawy and Jacqueline Rose take contrasting feminist approaches
Jacqueline Rose Review by Dani Garavelli Mona Eltahawy knows how to grab our attention. “I wrote this book with enough rage to fuel a rocket,” she writes at the start of her latest polemic, The Seven Necessary Sins For Women And Girls. “I knew I had to write it while I was still high on the glory of beating up a man who had sexually assaulted me.” It is a clever, shocking opener, designed to make us feel uneasy. Most feminists will share Eltahawy’s rage; many will be glad she fought off the man who – it transpires – grabbed her bum in a club. But to be “high on the glo...
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