Ika Makimaki reviewed Raising the Resistance by Farrah Alexander
Review of 'Raising the Resistance' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
I am not quite the target audience for this book, but I still enjoyed it. It is a book for moms, it deals a lot with very feminine subjects, like pregnancy, body shaming, and being a woman in the world today. I do not have direct experience with any of that, but enjoyed learning about it and the more radical angles the book takes on anti-racism, feminism and progressive politics as applied to parenting.
It is very American centered and clearly inspired by the Trump period, which is fine but limits it's scope a little bit.
The other criticism I have is it also tends to feel a little bit naive in terms of the possibilities of electoral politics. And as often happens with American liberals, The rejection of Republicans pushes them to embrace Democrats and glorify figures like Hillary Clinton and Obama, giving them a blind spot to actually …
I am not quite the target audience for this book, but I still enjoyed it. It is a book for moms, it deals a lot with very feminine subjects, like pregnancy, body shaming, and being a woman in the world today. I do not have direct experience with any of that, but enjoyed learning about it and the more radical angles the book takes on anti-racism, feminism and progressive politics as applied to parenting.
It is very American centered and clearly inspired by the Trump period, which is fine but limits it's scope a little bit.
The other criticism I have is it also tends to feel a little bit naive in terms of the possibilities of electoral politics. And as often happens with American liberals, The rejection of Republicans pushes them to embrace Democrats and glorify figures like Hillary Clinton and Obama, giving them a blind spot to actually revolutionary alternatives.
It is a good, practical starting point for mothers interested in parenting from a progressive standpoint though.