I picked up several newish books from my library’s feminism section. The first one I looked at was Think Like a Feminist by Carol Hay. Published in 2020 by W. W. Norton & Co., it is advertised as “an audacious and accessible guide to feminist philosophy.”

I used the flair “Book Report” for this thread but a more apt term would be “Preface Report,” as I didn’t make it past the preface, from which this blurb is taken:

I promise to do my very best to present as many of feminism's strands as possible, and I'll try to avoid getting bogged down in its internecine battles, but I won't pretend to be neutral about which iterations of feminism I prefer or that all are equally valid. For instance, I think TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists) are feminists who don't deserve the name—no one should get to call herself a feminist if she doesn't care about all women, and trans women are women. I think incidents like Susan B. Anthony declaring, "I will cut off this right arm of mine before I ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman," or Betty Friedan scaring up a "lavender menace" to disassociate the feminist movement from LGBTQ causes, are black marks on the movement's history that still haven't been properly made up for.

I’m not entirely certain whether I will attempt to continue but thought I would share in case anyone is inclined to read it.