An excellent little piece of writing. There are moments here or there that are a little extreme for me, or at least didn't effectively win me over -- most specifically the segment about beauty standards that goes so far as to label any relationship with a "fat" person a queer relationship because of the way it defies cultural normativity. There's absolutely a conversation to be had there but my partner and I (both queer Femmes, me technically over weight) felt uncomfortable applying a former queer slur that hasn't yet fully been reclaimed to a definition as broad as "all non-normative relationships." I know for many, weight is not a choice. But it's not an innate identity the way it is to be trans or gay. There's no surgery to remove the gay (sorry Mike Pence). As a trans person who has suffered immense loss due to my identity, who has received graphic and bone-curling death threats for my identith, I don't feel that it's fair to put them in the same category

Beyond that, this book covers a lot of topics -- it's probably a little heady for the new feminist, but it's great to expand your knowledge at an intermediate level. There are uncomfortable conversations to be had with this book, but they're necessary conversations. And regardless how I felt about a topic here or there, it's those uncomfortable conversations that make this book worth picking up anyway. There's a lot here we all should be thinking about in order to be better people.

Beck makes feminist history readable and relevant. A primer in intersectional activism now and in the past, White Feminism is an excellent addition to the gender studies canon.