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Shami Chakrabarti

Teoksen On Liberty tekijä

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Includes the name: Shami Chakrabart

Image credit: Shami Chakrabarti, 2019.

Tekijän teokset

On Liberty (1762) 73 kappaletta
Of women (2017) 27 kappaletta

Associated Works

Fair and free : Labour, liberty and human rights (2017) — Johdanto — 2 kappaletta

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Overall, I was slightly disappointed with this book. My expectations for this were probably too high to begin with, and I do recognise that it is utterly impossible to attempt to fix all that is wrong in the world in less than 250 pages. Still, reading this book felt more like reviewing before an exam: featuring a great amount of information I already knew, it refreshed my memory but gave me very few new elements of reflection.

The book itself is structured very clearly, concentrating on major areas of social life to evaluate women's role and the issues that gender injustice helps perpetuate, or indeed generate in the first place. The focus is on different societies, spanning the whole world, and considers also historical evolutions.

While this is an undeniably well written, comprehensive account of gender policies around the world, I found myself wanting more. This read would probably be well-suited as an introduction to gender inequalities and feminism, but as someone who has already read up quite a lot on the subject, I found nothing noteworthy here. Not a bad book, but not one for me.

I received an e-arc of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. This did not affect my opinion of the book in any way.
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bookforthought | Nov 7, 2023 |
Very informative and well argued without being overbearing though maybe a bit dry.

Well worth reading, I came away much better informed than i was from just reading political spin in newspapers.
 
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mjhunt | 1 muu arvostelu | Jan 22, 2021 |
This is by far one of the most important books out there at the moment. Shami Chakrabarti writes in engaging prose (on what some may consider a somewhat dry topic). The case she makes for Human Rights (the ECHR and Human Rights Act especially) is thoughtfully laid out, with a clear thesis but well debated points.

I shall certainly be recommending this book to everyone and anyone in the next few weeks!
 
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gtf21 | 1 muu arvostelu | May 22, 2020 |

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