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Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our most outspoken feminist writers. 'With wit, insight and glorious, righteous rage, Clementine Ford lays out all the ways in which girls and women are hurt and held back, and unapologetically demands that the world do better. A passionate and urgently needed call to arms, Fight Like A Girl insists on our right to be angry, to be heard and to fight. It'll change lives.' Emily Maguire, author of An Isolated Incident A friend recently told me that the things I write are powerful for her because they have the effect of making her feel angry instead of just empty. I want to do this for all women and young girls - to take the emptiness and numbness they feel about being a girl in this world and turn it into rage and power. I want to teach all of them how to FIGHT LIKE A GIRL. Clementine Ford Online sensation, fearless feminist heroine and scourge of trolls and misogynists everywhere, Clementine Ford is a beacon of hope and inspiration to thousands of Australian women and girls. Her incendiary debut Fight Like A Girl is an essential manifesto for feminists new, old and soon-to-be, and exposes just how unequal the world continues to be for women. Crucially, it is a call to arms for all women to rediscover the fury that has been suppressed by a society that still considers feminism a threat. Fight Like A Girl will make you laugh, cry and scream. But above all it will make you demand and fight for a world in which women have real equality and not merely the illusion of it.
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03.5 stars
This book was at its strongest during the first 1/2 of the novel, when Ford delved into her own past and the struggles she faced. There, it was compelling, interesting, and felt as if a light had been shone on an under explored area. The second half of the novel felt a bit more underdeveloped. The points themselves were strong and important, but the evidence used was either brief and untouched (such as: disability or aboriginal assault statistics) or slightly departed from the point she was making (majority of sexual assault happens from people who are known to the victim, yet all her examples were of strangers).
I think this book may serve as a good introductory device for people still trying to get a handle on what feminism may mean to them, and it does offer good insight into teenage eating disorders and pregnancy related mental health struggles.
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