Review by Booklist Review
Having spent a lifetime ignoring, or brushing off, or letting it slide, British writer Bates found herself on the receiving end, yet again, of everyday sexism and sexual harassment and decided that she had had enough. Goaded by her own experiences, she began an online dialogue with other women to find out about their encounters, and she was shocked by the deluge of responses she received about similar or worse stories from women of all ages in every socioeconomic situation across the UK and America. After creating a venue for women to share their daily challenges and significant experiences with sexist confrontations, Bates gathered personal observations, provided statistical information, reviewed media coverage of women, and studied the lack of serious response or even the attempt to protest the barrage of negative feedback women endure regarding their appearance, intelligence, and moral conduct, day after day. Readers, whether newly educated or empowered by Bates' comprehensive, well-researched report, will find it useful for starting discussions between the genders. A list of resources, additional information, and ways to get involved are included.--Hayman, Stacey Copyright 2016 Booklist
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
Sexism as it exists today in Western culture is a normal, everyday experience in the lives of women, according to Bates. She knows this from personal experience as well as from the thousands of women who have shared their experiences through the Everyday Sexism Project, a website founded by the author and dedicated to cataloguing instances of sexism. With pages of facts, well-reasoned and detailed arguments, and an expanding supply of painful stories of women and girls told in their own words, Bates shines an unrelenting light on sexist acts of oppression, laying in stark detail and clear language how sexism causes problems for women in every area of their lives, from girlhood to education to their working years. The argument she builds is inescapable: sexism affects everyone, with damaging consequences not just to women but to all people and to society as a whole, and no one could read this book and fail to be moved. (Apr.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Review by Library Journal Review
Based on a successful social media project-a response to what Bates describes as her "tipping point," the moment following a series of episodes of harassment she was expected to accept as part of an investigation into what it means to be a woman inhabiting public space-this debut examines the deeply entrenched, systemic sexual double standards that marginalize and oppress women today. As a contribution to research and studies of sexism, Bates' book offers a confident mixture of personal narratives, data, and anecdotes the author has collected over the years and is most compelling in its utilization of a nonlinear approach to the subject. Rather than start with girlhood and move through the phases of women's lives, the author opens with the political realm and goes on to interrogate preadulthood, the education system, the workplace, and public space; a strategy that allows her to spotlight the ways in which systemic oppression has no beginning or end. Occasionally, the author's tone and syntax seems off-putting (e.g., using "his junk" in reference to a man's online presence)-a phrase that risks alienating readers from an important point about sexual double standards. VERDICT Bates invites provocative, much-needed dialog that will promote more nuanced exchanges regarding the issues women face. [See Prepub Alert, 8/24/15.]-Emily Bowles, Building for Kids -Children's Museum, Appleton, WI © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by School Library Journal Review
Using hundreds of tales from women (and men) about sexual abuse, catcalling, and sexism, Bates draws from her social media project, Everyday Sexism, to create a must-have title about social justice, feminism, and microaggressions. (http://ow.ly/iyXM305ME9V)-Sarah Hill, Lake Land College, Mattoon, IL © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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