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Rose: Love In Violent Times (2010)

by Inga Muscio(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1583229019 (ISBN13: 9781583229019)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Seven Stories Press

review 1: i started reading and rolled my eyes a little bit at her casual conversation style full of slang and swearing, but I really got into it, and the light tone helps balance the heavy-ass content of the book (i love heavy content, and sometimes don't have anything to balance it, and wallow in depression). she tackles war and rape and death and the challenges of healthy relationships. i talked about this book a lot in the week after i finished it, and i'd love to talk about it more, so read it!
review 2: The strongest sections of this book are Muscio's opening and closing chapter, where she presents strategies for disarming forms of passive violence and alternatives to dominant, oppressive, and colonizing narratives of love, sex, and interaction. The chapters on v... moreiolence themselves could have benefited from more detailed analysis -- particularly the chapter on sexual assault, which focused primarily on child abuse, and could perhaps have been divided into two sections. Overall, I didn't find Rose as cohesive as Muscio's previous work, but the text would be useful as a straightforward and no-holds-barred introduction to the intersections of oppression. less

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