Honestly, there were times when her humor started to feel real clichés and stupid misunderstandings. She phrases events that shaped her and her feminist ideals and rants about them – wittily and truthfully. The book moves from Moran’s adolescence to womanhood to motherhood, and each chapter deals with several aspects and conflicts of being a woman.
“Good humor does not elevate common sense wisdom into groundbreaking or important feminist thought.” As author Roxane Gay points out in her review of ‘How To Be a Woman’:Ī Room of One’s Own – Empowering Words Or Privileged Mindset? Feminism, when not inclusive, is not feminism! Humour is the weapon she employs and while she excels at that- somehow she fails to entertain a reader with something new, something original, or a thought that will linger in the mind after you finish this book. This book is absolutely confusing and convoluted, and while the author has her charms to enable you to read the book without cringing, it is not long before you realize that she narrates very limited views, very subjectively. However, I judge this book as a Feminist read and since it failed to impress me in that genre – I would not recommend it for you. If you want to pick a humorous memoir of a lady- you would not be disappointed, and I think you should pick this up.
It is more of a memoir – and a promising one at that, but I guess most readers pick it up as a feminist read which this book really lacks in delivering. However, despite the immense potential and a promising premise, this book fails to delight a feminist reader because the title of the book misleads you to a certain extent with the idea of feminism because the read is far from empowering. “How To Be a Woman” by Caitlin Moran is a Feminist humorous non-fiction book that has sold over a million copies worldwide and gained several positive reviews across the globe.
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