What it Means to BE a Woman

by Jacqueline Pirtle

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Thank you to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for providing me with an advance readers copy in exchange for an honest review.

I requested this book, hoping to feel uplifted as a woman with a self-help/development type book, and give me a more enlightened view on being a woman. Although, this is absolutely not what this book provides.

I found it incredibly hard to get through this book, and considered stopping at multiple points. It was incredibly repetitive, it felt like a copy and paste project gone wrong - and I genuinely thought at times that perhaps this wasn't a real book, but instead just an advertisement for the authors other books that were shamelessly plugged in this book every other page. I especially didn't enjoy the way that the author said that women shouldn't care that men get paid more, but rather that they get paid for being their own individuals?! ok... yes, you want to get paid for your own work, but saying that you shouldn't want to get paid as much as men because YOU ARE NOT A MAN was the straw that broke the camels back for me.

In this book, the author writes that this is a book for women, by a woman - yet, in the next chapter continues to tell you to share this book with all the men in your life which was the first of many contradictions that this book held. Whilst continuing to tell me, that as a woman I can poop, I have boobs and a vagina, thanks for letting me know? I really don't understand the need for this book, and I wouldn't bother to revisit it as I feel as though I've gained nothing from this read.