I don't think this book that centres around women being "liberated" by a man making choices for them and having their entire life in his hands can in any way shape or form be feminist? I dislike the insinuation that all women are fascinated with men and desire their compliments and attention more than anything else or that relationships between women are actually the default and easier because it is “shameful” to want to be with men.

This book asks us to consider what it might mean to truly honour our own desires; however messy they might be.The long-awaited second instalment in Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling series Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory.

it’s really an easy five star, filled with taboo topics and fascinating characters and revealing dynamics. But Fishman isn’t really interested in looking at the world in this way: her story seems to be aiming at allegory, but ends up in an uncomfortable halfway house between that and realism, in the end achieving neither . but eve’s central sin (ha ha ha) is passivity more than anything else, and i feel like a book interested in discussing (1) the sexual oasis of false power an allegedly emancipated hot girl can find inside the male gaze (2) the concerns of power and control between women, and how gay women can develop a sort of overcompensatory conscience to keep them from becoming ‘like men’ in their pursuit of other women - might go a little harder on what it means for the heroine to see herself in this wall street shithead guy.Then a chance encounter provides a space to explore the feelings Eve’s tried to suppress and she begins a physical relationship with a stranger, artist Olivia, and her partner wealthy, self-assured Nathan. This is how Eve meets Olivia, and through Olivia, the charismatic Nathan—and soon the three begin a relationship that disturbs Eve as much as it delights her. If you love watching the new Gossip Girl TV Show, with sexuality weaved into the show, then you will love this book Acts of Service. And then there's her relationship to the women around her: She is cheating on her girlfriend, and she is jealous and sometimes resentful towards Olivia while also worrying about her because she could be fired or blackmailed as she upholds an inappropriate relationship with her boss Nathan.

and this is a very long prelude to saying: that is how this book opens up, and the promise it makes to its readers.There are plenty of unlikely quasi-psychologcal ruminations and conversations about sex and power , but surely we are already aware that some people are addicted to inappropriate sex, to subjugation, some to being coercive. E come se la vera verità, quella più profonda, fosse raggiungibile esclusivamente attraverso il sesso che rappresenta l’autentica natura di ciascuno. It angered me because it proposed the same old tired answer to the question of gender distinctions that men in evangelical circles have been throwing at me my whole life: I know what you really want; I’ll give it to you, soon as you stop pretending you could ever hope to know it for yourself.